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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE - own look-and-feel
From:       Eric Plante <plante () IRO ! UMontreal ! CA>
Date:       1998-02-26 19:43:13
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Fester wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Philo Vivero wrote:
>
> >
> >Left-aligned tabs are much more attractive in my mind. A list should be
> >top-to-bottom, not left-to-right. A tab control is a list of tabs.
>
> In case of 3 or 4 tabs, top-align is a space-saver.
> When using more, maybe we should not use tabs, but a tree on the left, like in
> netscape. Its really nice to be able to define levels of config importance,
> e.g.  View for general view options, and View/Fonts for font config.
> Such a list also solves the problem of too many tabs to display -> just make the
> list scrollable, and collapsable !

Ah! Well, that clears it up pretty much. Tabs as long as there's very few of them,
a (generalized) list to the left a la netscape  otherwise. Seems pretty reasonable.

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