Re: Sub-tabs in capplets

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 16:31 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 19:31 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> > I guess the "taking a step back" question might be: how do Mac and
> > Windows avoid having multi-level complexity in their capplets?  Without
> > looking at either of them, I can think of maybe one Mac capplet that has
> > a second-level dropdown list, and none on Windows.
> 
> On Windows, they just avoid the issue, and have multi-level tabs, or
> peruse the feature of the notebook widget on Windows, where it stacks
> the tabs, rather than having the spinbutton-like navigation that we
> do in GTK+. This means that all tabs are always visible in those
> applications (cf MS Office Preferences).

That, and also by abusing popup dialogues where you have to go 5
dialogue layers deep to find the "unbreak me" checkbox.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>