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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Option to attach Page Tabs to bottom instead of top?
From:       Henry Stanaland <henryst () MIT ! EDU>
Date:       2001-12-05 6:41:57
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Have you guys used Gnome?  (Okay, I'm pretty sure everybody
has).  As long as I remember, in the Gnome Control Center 
section "MDI" you can choose MDI Mode(Modal, TopLevel, Notebook).  
If you choose Notebook, then you choose (Top, Left, Right, Bottom).

However, I thought that KDE dropped MDI from the API?  I
remember seeing this quit a while back, so MDI may of 
come back.  I think it's getting popular now that with
Notebook style.  I think the problem KDE had with it
was the MS Windows style where an application would
have a bunch of mini-windows inside it with it's own
taskbar.  I like Notebook style, which is why I liked
gnome-edit (or was it gedit) more than I have liked
the KDE ones....though I use Kate now.

So, either make it an option like in Gnome, which seems 
like a lot of work in the MDI API...or not.

Henry

On Tuesday 04 December 2001 03:16 pm, Dave Leigh wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2001 09:55, Sean Pecor wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > As I hammer away on my first KDE app, a semi-automated time tracking
> > panel applet, I'm wondering if a particular user interface feature is a
> > good idea or not:
> >
> > Bottom attached tabs? In other words, an option to dock the tabs for a
> > multiple document / page interface on the bottom of a frame. The standard
> > top attached tabs work fine, but I'm finding that my mouse cursor is most
> > often closer to the bottom of the screen when I need to get to a tab. If
> > this is often the case with most users, why not make a prototype and
> > experiment with it?
>
> I've often seen the position of the tabs as an option. You know how I love
> options!  Although I typically prefer them at the top, I disagree with Marc
> that this is where "the user" expects them. Many applications place them at
> the bottom (Excel & Textpad are examples in Windows), so what the user
> expects depends largely on the user's prior experience.
>
> > Perhaps I'm backwards :). I have my close button (X) on the left side of
> > the window header away from the other buttons on the right. But it saves
> > me time since my cursor is usually closest to the top left when I'm
> > getting ready to close something down. Also prevents me from accidentally
> > closing a window when I wanted to minimize it, which was a rare but
> > painful event  ;)
>
> If you're backwards, then so am I.  Of course, I also put my panel at the
> top of the screen so that the K menu drops DOWN in accordance with the laws
> of physics. IMHO, this is also what the user should expect. :)

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