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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: kcontrol navigation/layout
From:       Alistair Davidson <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-08-31 13:36:48
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On Saturday 31 August 2002 13:37, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> heya,
>
> i found it almost impossible to find unique accels in some kcms. part
> of the problem is, that the tabs have accels, too. anyway, as tabs are
> regularily arranged, one could think of alternative ways of navigating
> them, particularily alt-<left/right> (shift would be more konsole-like,
> but we need selection ability in kcc (well, in fact i'd like to see it
> in konsole as well, but all apps seems to support only the linux console
> anyway ...)).
>
> another idea for rearranging kcontrol: tabs must die entirely. you
> certainly know the netscape/mozilla (and recently opera) setups. they
> have only a tree. the advantage of this concept is, that one could
> unify the keyboard navigation entirely: one would use only alt-<arrows>.
> the problem about this is, that the kcontrol architecture had to be
> changed "slightly", but that's not too hard (except for a possible
> compatibility problem - dunno, if this is relevant for kcms).

The thing about tabs is that they're easy to understand because they're a good 
analogy to the real world with a clear link between the tabs at the top and 
what appears when you click on them.

- -- 
Alistair Davidson
Prying open your third eye since 1823
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