[kde-guidelines] Accordion

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Wednesday 09 October 2013 09:51:51 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> At the moment we have only one unfinished page left at the grouping and the
> whole viewing-and-navigation section.
> 
> * Use an accordion (aka tool box) to structure program's features into
> sections.
> 
> But I don't know any KDE application that makes use of this widget. And it's
> very similar to vertical tabs. As difference I would expect that accordions
> do not allow switching between pages per ctrl+tab (I might be wrong at this
> point). And it has a more compact layout, without icons.
> 
> What do you think, should we remove this item or add the page? If we keep
> it, for what situation should this control be recommended?

Now that I actually understand the difference between accordion / tool box and 
vertical tabs, I'd vote for using the accordion instead of vertical tabs in 
cases where there isn't enough horizontal space for horizontal tabs.