[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Accordion

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 25.10.2013 12:21, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Behaviour > Viewing and Navigation > Grouping
> * Provide an accordion (aka tool box) for different views to content.
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Accordion
>
> == Purpose ==
> The ''accordion'' (in Qt also known as tool box) provides a column of tabbed
> panels. Similar to tabs only a single item is shown at once.
>
> == Example ==
>
> == Guidelines ==
> === Is this the right control ===
> * Use an accordion for content with mutually exclusive views. That might be a
> calculator with simple vs. scientific vs. statistical layout, or a digital vs.
> analog clock, for instance.
> * Do not use an accordion to structure content by default. Rather use a list
> view with associated pages or [[Projects/Usability/HIG/TabControl|tabs]].
> * Consider to replace the accordion by another control since KDE makes very
> rarely use of this type of navigation.
> === Behavior ===
> * Do not mix the accordion with other types of navigation on the same level.
> * Do not use more than one accordion in your application because it is clutter
> prone.
> * Make sure that accordion contains of at least one panel.
> * Do not add more than five panels to an accordion.
> === Appearance ===
> * Each panel must contain a panel header with descriptive label.
> * Do not use icons in panel headers.
> == Implementation ==

What lead to the decision to do a separate page for the Accordion? Your 
idea to merge accordion and tabs into one HIG sounded perfectly 
reasonable to me...