[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Tabs

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Friday 11 October 2013 00:59:35 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> 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.

If you select orientation east or west in the tab widget in Qt Designer, the 
tabs actually are rotated 90°, with labels written vertically.

> 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.

What is the advantage of paging via list view over tabs in your opinion?