Re: [gtk-list] Re: Piling notebooks...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Antonio Campos <acampos@ceronet.com> writes:

> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > Antonio Campos <acampos@ceronet.com> writes:
> > > Does anybody know anyway of piling notebooks ala Java Swing mode?
> >
> > Not sure what this is, perhaps someone else can answer...
> >
> 
> It's just piling two or more rows of notebooks sheets (when they are
> horizontal, columns if they were vertical), like in the Display Properties
> Dialog that appears in Windows 9x, when you press right mouse button over the
> desktop.
> For things like that, piling notebooks is more user friendly that making a big
> scrollable notebook.

Many UI experts consider the Windows-9x style implementation
of this poor because the notebook tabs reorder when you select
one that isn't on the top line.

I'd say, in general, if you have more than 4 or 5 notetabs,
you are doing something wrong, and if you need that many options,
you should consider using a combination of a list and a separate
pain of controls as someone else suggested.

Regards,
                                        Owen