Kickoff multiple columns

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 31 July 2008, Luiz Felipe Talvik wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> > On Thursday 31 July 2008, Luiz Felipe Talvik wrote:
> >> http://www.comp.ufscar.br/~talvik/kickoff/screenshot4.png
> >> http://www.comp.ufscar.br/~talvik/kickoff/screenshot5.png
> >
> > in this one, documents is on the first tab. i have to say that i much
> > prefer the look in #4, even if it would mean adding a scrollbar... hm.
>
> I'll have to disagree on that. If I changed the rule to prefer one
> section per column,
> there would be situation in which both looks and usability would be worse:
> -Current (doesn't look so good, but more practical):
> http://www.comp.ufscar.br/~talvik/kickoff/current1.png
> http://www.comp.ufscar.br/~talvik/kickoff/current2.png
> -Your suggestion:
> http://www.comp.ufscar.br/~talvik/kickoff/possible1.png
> http://www.comp.ufscar.br/~talvik/kickoff/possible2.png

hm.. yes, this looks better on the Computer page, but worse on the Leave 
page.. hrm hrm.

> Current set of rules:
...
> Can you think of ways to improve it?

> -if a section header is the last item it is moved to the next column

i wonder if this one can be tweaked a bit, so that "if a section header is the 
last item" becomes "if a section header is more than N% of the way down a 
column" ... maybe 70%? 75%? 80%? would take some playing with it to see the 
visual results i think, but it might result in a nicer flow?

alternatively ... (or aditionally?)

for getting a rule that works for the Leave page ... if all headings fit on the 
page witout scrolling when in their own columns, favour their own columns.

that would prevent the poor situation you highlighted on the Computer page 
because the center section wouldn't fit on the page in it's own column, and so 
the second heading would still show up in the first column...

?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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