Two weeks later: KDE 3.4 Control Center UI Review

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:50 pm, Anders Lund wrote:
> On Sunday 27 February 2005 13:07, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > See attachment.  I can't quickly tell which tab is which without text.  
> > Tooltips are too slow and clumsy.
>
> That screenshot simply proves me right: the tabs metaphor does not work for
> the amount of tabs.
>
> You have at least 12 tabs, and if you display the caption in each, you'd
> easily have 4 rows of tabs allready, even with a resonable cropping (given
> a widow width < 1025px with readable font size). So each time you'd click a
> tab, the rows would alter their positions and you wouldn't know where to
> look for a  specific tab. The more tabs and the more switching the worse,
> making the idea of a multilevel tabbar self-contradictive -- a navigation
> tool that makes navigating hard and frustrating :S
>
> And even with the window size that I tend to use ( ~1000x800px) 4 or more
> rows of tabs would eat up a considerable part of my window, and that in a
> much more annoying way than a sidebar (imo, that is probably subjective).
>
> A sidebar of course have rich opportunities for displaying state
> information.

If you had a sidebar you could have little 200x200 screenshots of each webpage 
you are viewing in a list.  That would be interesting.

-Benjamin Meyer

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