[Panel-devel] [PATCH] kickoff

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 11 October 2007, Robert Knight wrote:
> > what do you think about moving System Settings into Places?
>
> It isn't a place as such, but a tool. 

i think that's a detail that users will hardly care about. this isn't a 
scientific classification system ;)

> In the KDE 3 version, System 
> Settings (or the distribution's own equivalent) is listed under an
> "Applications" category.

i considered giving it it's own heading, but it looked unecessary with:

  HEADER
     Entry
  HEADER
     Entry
     Entry
  HEADER
     Entry
     Entry
     Entry

getting rid of the first header and combining the first two sections made a 
lot more visual sense.

> > and how about on the Favorites page adding a header item, e.g.
> > "Favorites"? patch attached for that as well...
>
> I think that would be redundant.  The headers are only needed to
> separate groups of items on the same page.

without the header as you switch between pages the content shifts vertical 
position and the presentation of the page shifts. this simply looks better 
visually when switching from page to page.

> > i figure we can either add a header to the first list on the Applications
> > tab and make those headers look like the rest of the headers
>
> I'm treating the order of the tabs as fixed at the moment.  I can see
> that they have been rearranged between OpenSuSE 10.2 to OpenSuSE 10.3
> based on feedback, so I'm using the same tab layout as in OpenSuSE
> 10.3.
>
> When you say "visually inconsistent," could you expand on that?  I
> think that adding a header would be redundant, but we could try to
> align the items from tab to tab.

when you mouse over each tab and watch the content, the contents would move up 
or down depend on the tab and the appearance of the header (colour, weight, 
underlining, etc) would shift. it made it look quite inconsistent between 
pages, as if each page were separately designed rather than visually part of 
a whole.

> > i do wonder about the general order of the tabs ... i almost would expect
> > favorites and recently used to be next to each other
>
> Favorites and Recently Used were next to each other in the original
> version of Kickoff, but the current tab layout mirrors OpenSuSE 10.3,
> I presume the changes were made following user feedback.  You'd have
> to ask the Stephan and co. for more information.

now that they are visually more consistent, it probably matters even less now.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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