[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Tabs

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Friday 11 October 2013 15:10:14 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2013, 10:43:44 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
> > If you select orientation east or west in the tab widget in Qt Designer,
> > the tabs actually are rotated 90°, with labels written vertically.
> 
> OMG! That's what I never want to see.
> 
> > What is the advantage of paging via list view over tabs in your opinion?
> 
> * it has a plain but nice layout with fast orientation via big icons
> primarily * I'd recommend it for simple pages (and trees for advanced use)
> * lists have a fixed size and are not affected on resizing (where tabs might
> not fit anymore)
> * it's the KDE way of showing configuration (ie. KCM)

Sorry for not answering for so long.
Did you have a look at the vertical tabs implementation in the tool option 
docker in Calligra? What are the advantages of list views over those tabs?

For config dialogs, I agree that the icon list should be used because people 
recognize them from System Settings, but within a main UI like in Calligra, I 
think they'd look weird.