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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2005, 07:02:00 PM »
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Kyro has of course a point and a ptch will be wellcomed :P

phoenix: don't get me started on vertical tabs and wxMac.
I did not say vertical :) The dialog window is detached from the main app window, horizontal tabs should be ok.
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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2005, 08:37:47 PM »
Horizontal tabs have scroll arrows and sucks hard. And have no nice icons.
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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2005, 08:50:01 PM »
Yeah, they have no icons, but I can live without them, remember, I don't have a Mac, I use console and vi :P

Seriously, it would me much more functional. That wasted space on the left side has always bogged me.

KyroMaster, if you can provide a patch to the gui that makes the listctrl resize with the window, i think it will be acceptable.

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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2005, 09:02:20 PM »
Personally, I think there are too many categories for horizontal tabs -- either you only show half of them at a time and people have to scroll constantly, or you put them in two or three rows and then we have almost reached MS Word standards in terms of clutter and confusion.

Plus, as a Mac user, I insist on the icons... ;)
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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2005, 09:12:12 PM »
lionel77, I would not expect otherwise from a Mac user :D

But seriously, what is worst? An horizontal tab with many rows or the way it is now, wasting precious space on the screen? I am really not sure, The icons today are not that good in giving you a clue of what you will configure. Does anyone know of a notebook control with icons? :)

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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #20 on: October 15, 2005, 11:02:37 PM »
Ok, I think I´ll have a look at the code and perhaps then I post some "nice UI" patches.  :D
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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #21 on: October 15, 2005, 11:37:36 PM »
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Does anyone know of a notebook control with icons?
wxNotebook 8)

Anyway, I'm against turning the list into tabs.
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Re: Category list in Settings dialog too small
« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2005, 01:23:09 AM »
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But seriously, what is worst? An horizontal tab with many rows or the way it is now, wasting precious space on the screen? I am really not sure, The icons today are not that good in giving you a clue of what you will configure.
I really think multiple tab rows are an abomination -- even the Mac business unit at Microsoft has realized this and stopped using them a number of years ago. ;)

Also, I don't think "waste of space" is such a huge issue, because most dialog windows in the prefs are still half empty or at least not very crowded.

Concerning the icons, even if some of them don't help you much initially, you will soon associate them with the proper category, enabling you to find it faster in the future.
Icons are simply much faster to process than text. :)
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