[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Tabs

[Heiko Tietze]

On Tuesday 22 October 2013, 10:59:08 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> What are "all problems"? 
Con:
* Much space is used for navigation, at least with text.
* Less flexibility when form is sized in landscape (which is the default). 
There is simply more space horizontally.
* Captions do not fit into tab, at least when translated. Horizontal tabs are 
resized according the text.
* Visual break between single line and multiline caption because of the top 
alignment.
* Tabs are not accessible, neither be shortcuts nor per tab key.
* Caption's color is not applied according theme (which I haven't seen for 
normal tabs, cf. font or paragraf details dialog).
* There is a break in interaction concept by collecting different function sets 
into one dock panel ('add shape' has its own panel).
* Inconsitent usage: move the docker to the left side and you can get two 
horizontal tabs, one unnamed and one for 'add shape'. 
* It is an unusual interaction. 
* I don't see any customization like for dockable toolbars (which would be the 
same for horizontal tabs).

Pro:
* Better usage of widescreen layout.
* Fast access to (all) functions.

Do I always need to know that I can handle object alignment, setup general 
layout, change properties etc.? If Calligra really want to provide an 
integrated panel for settings, it make sense to use a dropdown for selection 
of panel's content.

> And why do they not conform with KDE style?
Because all other programs do not use vertical tabs. 

> > Perhaps we should discourage using them:
> Hm yes, maybe we can go with this...
Yeah :-)