Re: Capplet organization

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 3/13/07, Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > For merging some of the capplets for 2.20, we may need a different
> > organization inside the dialogs themselves; a simple notebook may not
> > suffice, as  it's one-level organization might lead to too many tabs. So
> > I think some kind of two-level organization would be nice. I already
> > suggested the (in)famous notebooks-in-notebooks some time ago:
> >
> > http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/keyboard.html
> > (ignore the actual content, my point is the organization)
> >
> > I also like the the icon bar organization from KDE land, described in
> > the draft of the KDE 4 interface guidelines:
> >
> > http://wiki.openusability.org/guidelines/index.php/Practical_Examples:Configuration_Dialogs 
> >
> >
> > I'm very curious about your feedback; do you maybe have alternative 
> > ideas?
>
> Nested tabs is worse than what we currently have; don't do it.

I actually hoped for _constructive_ comments... do you maybe have an 
alternative idea? What do you think about the KDE approach?

Denis