Re: Sub-tabs in capplets

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

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.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
>   
Windows often uses additional pop-up dialogs (like in the display 
settings) which I wouldn't say is a good solution. I don't know about 
Mac because I never had one.

Denis