Re: Plans for 2.20

[Magnus Boman <captain magnus gmail com>]

Denis,

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 17:24 +0100, Denis Washington wrote:
> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:55 +0100, Denis Washington wrote:
> >   
> >> One thing we should really think about IMHO is how the 2.20 capplets 
> >> should generally look like. Should they stay simple notebooks? I may be 
> >> wrong, but I don't think that we really can merge very many preferences 
> >> without making a second categorization level possible at least for some 
> >> capplets. We shouldn't work around this issue with just opening extra 
> >> windows for certain preferences to reduce the number of tabs. I know 
> >> that notebooks in notebooks are not a very popular option (though not 
> >> against HIG as some seem to think), but I'm pretty sure we need some way 
> >> of sub-categorization; it may also help to find thinks better if the 
> >> preferences are grouped in a clever way.
> >>
> >>     
> > could you please send to the list the mockup you showed me? That way, we
> > can talk about something real :-) My personal opinion is that, after
> > seeing Denis' mockup, it doesn't look that bad
> >   
> 
> Here is the mockup, a notebooks-in-notebooks version of a simple 
> keyboard and keyboard-a11y capplet. The actual UI can probably be 
> improved, it's mainly to show the notebooks:
> 
> http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/keyboard.html
> 
> Comments are more than welcome :)

That's fantastic! I can see no problems having (I would say tab's in
tab's) notebooks-in-notebooks. This sort of layout makes it, in my
opinion, much easier for users.

> Denis

Cheers,
Magnus