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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Observations on the new KWord startup dialog
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2003-05-27 9:08:18
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On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 11:31:20PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 26 May 2003 22:28, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > The way tabs are used in all applications is that they provide different
> > views to the same data. 
> 
> Certainly not. Do all my konqueror tabs show the same data?
> Do all my kspread sheets (one per tab) show the same data?

You are right; and I should not have taken the shortcut in my explenation.
In these cases the widgets that are outside the tabs (and thus common to the
different pages) make a very clear what they do.
As soon as I put a button outside the tabs, like, for example, an 'apply'
button the content of all tabs is to be applied.
If a widget outside of the tabs (like the location bar of konq) does not show
its different between the tabs then it becomes cumbersome to use.
And last, but not least. We read from left to right, top to bottom.
When a button is outside and below the tabs the user has just seen the
different tabs and the button is 'seen' as a button for all tabs.
This is why the KFind dialog would be horrible when the buttons are not at
the right but at the bottom (try it :)


> > Ok, quick scetch attached that might not be the end-all, but should at
> > the very least prove to solve more problems then most ideas I have seen
> > so far.
> 
> This would still open a modal dialog (the file dialog) above the template
> chooser dialog (modal too) - isn't that considered bad practice?

Good point.
-- 
Thomas Zander

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