Re: [Usability] Persist active notebook page?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 13:27, Christian Persch wrote:

> IMHO, it does make sense: consider this example: In Epiphany, you want
> to modify your font settings. You go Edit->Preferences, switch to Font
> tab, modify your fonts; close dialogue. A bit later, you notice it's
> still not right, so you go back to the preferences dialogue. It should
> open on the fonts page, but does not.

Usual usability answer: "it depends" :)  If I'm opening the dialog from
a generic menu item like "Preferences", then it's potentially useful to
remember which tab was last used, for that session at least.  (It drove
me mad for years that Netscape/Mozilla didn't remember which set of
preferences I accessed last-- Firefox seems to have fixed this).  

It gets a bit unclear if you can also access the dialog via menu items
that take you straight to a particular tab though... should you remember
that tab for the next 'generic' visit, or not?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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