Re: Interface suggestion...

[John Anderson <cobalt f2s com>]

The only problem with a combo box is that its usage is much less
transparent, and begs to be discovered rather than obvious.  With tabs, the
same taken up would be pretty much the same as a combo box (you will still
need a chunk of screen space to put the combo box in), but tabs allow for
quicker navigation between different sheets of information.  It would be
nice to be able to read an md5 sum in the plain text tab, then quickly hit
the file tab and be able to make sure the md5 is actually right.  Combo
boxes at this point make for 4 clicks, rather than 2...

John Anderson

On 2001.07.31 09:52 ppi wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, John Anderson wrote:
> 
> > Hey there, I have been brainstorming ideas on new interface mechanisms
> for
> > Balsa, and I think that I've come up with a new message display system,
> > that will allow for much more information to be conveyed to the user
> about
> > each message...
> >
> > I've taken a few images of what I think the message interface could
> look
> > like, I'd appreciate all of your feedback!  (These images are shots of
> a
> > little mock-up I did in Glade just for illustration)...
> >
> > http://qth.yi.org/~cobalt/yew.jpg
> >
> > (Notice the area where the message would be displayed, there are tabs,
> each
> > with their own function.  This allows for a clean separation about the
> > information conveyed on each page.  Maybe the Plaintext/HTML tab, but I
> am
> > somewhat partial to the separate tabs for each.)
> 
> Maybe instead of tabs, you could use a drop-down box.  This
> could make for a sleeker way of displaying the same info.
> 
> Mark Lindsay
> 
>