[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Tabs

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 25.10.2013 10:46, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> 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 :-)

Thanks for detailing the reasons!

Okay, so we have horizontal tabs only in the main UI, and "KCM-style" 
listview for multi-page settings dialogs.