[RkWard-devel] (re-)structuring settings UI

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hi,

Here are my 2 cents on this issue. The main point is that there is too much of 
screen space wasted. A nice and logical compactification is needed. As 
always, I am not aware of the internal complications, so my comments might 
sound ridiculous. I am attaching a kmdr script. If you guys do not use 
kommander then I will provide image files later, let me know.

* Plugins tab:
	Move the two frame beside each other, that way we can save some space. Or 
else make two columns: first column has the "dialog/wizard" frame and 
the "lines of code" frame. Second column has the .pluginmap file selector. 

* R-Backend tab
	Rename this to Backend and include the PHP-backend options here. The PHP 
backend options are too few to deserve a separate tab.

* R-Packages
	Move this tab from the main settings UI to the Configure Packages UI, under a 
new tab, say Repositories. I think this is the logical place for it. And 
everything related to package management can be under one roof "Configure 
Packages". Then the "Configure Repositories" button would not be needed.

* PHP backend
	Remove this tab completely.

* General tab:
	Rename this to Startup. This should be the first tab. The input, dropdown and 
spinboxes are too wide. Structuring them column wise would be better.

* Output, Command Log, Console, Workspace tabs:
	Combine all of these into one tab, say General. When in future we support 
export/integration to open document formats for Output, then the output 
options might be given a separate tab or may be even a separate menu 
entry "Configure Output". But as of now, for just two checkboxes we do not 
need a separate tab.

Regards
PK

On Sunday 18 March 2007 11:52:58 am Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Friday 16 March 2007 20:34, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> > Perfect! When on the issue of setttings UI, yes it is quite a mess in
> > there. May be we should restructure it someday, breaking up into more
> > than one settings UI.
>
> True. If anybody has an idea on how to (re-)structure the settings, I'd
> like to hear you thoughts.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
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