replacing kcontrol with system settings

[Ellen Reitmayr]

On Friday 15 June 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 15 June 2007, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> > i agree that it is better to include advanced options into the context of
> > use (that would be an advanced icon within a group on the first tab
> > rather than a separate advanced tab), but in this case, most the options
> > on the second tab don't fit well in any of the groups of the first tab.
> > plus we
>
> rather than using tabs (which are ugly and take up more vertical space,
> which is more in demand than horizontal these days), what do you think
> about putting an icon that lets one switch to these other panels at the top
> between the overview button and the search label?

like it used to be (two buttons to switch between general and advanced)? it 
was intended to work like the navigation in the firefox preferences dialog, 
but users were observed to have problems with it. so it was changed to tabs 
in feisty. 

/el

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Ellen Reitmayr
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org
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