Re: Sub-tabs in capplets

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 22 Mar 2007, at 19:31, Calum Benson wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 20:24 +0100, Denis Washington wrote:
>
> >  So I propose
> > to add a group of toggle buttons to the top of the content  of those
> > tabs which need them. They can be separated from the actual content 
> > by a
> > separator. The following link shows a mockup of this (it shows a 
> > dialog
> > that combines the options of the "Keyboard" and "Keyboard 
> > Accessibility"
> > capplets):
> >
> > http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/keyboard.html
>
> FWIW, it's more common on other platforms to do this kind of thing with
> a dropdown list rather than a group of toggle buttons.  If you're going
> to have the toggle buttons, you might as well have the tabs IMHO.
>
> 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.

I can think of more than one place in Windows were they work around 
this by just having more windows. Just taking the appearance capplet on 
Windows as an example, it seems as if there are half a dozen 
"sub-windows". This ends up being pretty terrible, but done carefully 
it might make sense (e.g. the font capplet works this way to separate 
Simple and Advanced settings).


-Thomas