Re: Tabbed components (was: Re: [Evolution] Evo 2.0 UI - Requests/comments)

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 18:21, Bret A Mogilefsky wrote:
> I saw mention of the 2.0 UI mockup discussion at FootNotes
> (http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1215&mode=thread&order=0&thold=1).  I was looking at the shots and 
> thinking to myself how nice it looked except for the rather large space wasted around the big component 
> navigation buttons in the lower left.  
(...)
> Then I saw this mockup in a comment on the story, showing the same proposed
> layout but with each component on a separate tab:
> http://www.martianrock.com/evo2_calendar_tabs.png

If space is the issue, then maybe using smaller buttons would solve the
problem?  (Small buttons in the lower left corner actually take less
space than a whole line of tabs.)

I am not very fond of using tabs there, since I think they are more
awkward to click on, and not as nice looking.

-- Ettore