[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Tabs

[Heiko Tietze]

On Friday 11 October 2013, 00:33:30 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> There is currently the guideline
> * Use vertical tabs for less than five options with static content. Prefer
> vertical tabs for configuration content.
> 
> I don't think the tabs with vertical labels should be used anywhere, because
> vertically written text should be avoided in general (and Amarok 2.0 showed
> that users don't indeed don't like it). Therefore we should decide what
> should be used instead of them.

Vertical does not mean rotated. The tab is just aligned to the left or right 
side of the form instead of top.

The recommendation to use it for static content was made with the list view in 
mind. Actually, tabs are hidden and the interaction is conducted by list view 
items. I'm aware that the phrase is confusing.