On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 08.09.2016, 14:45 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc > Lasgouttes: > > > I have missed most of the discussion, but I have to admit that the > > current panes system is not intuitive to me. Actually, when I open > > the > > dialog, I am not completely sure of what I see. > > These are not panes, but so-called tool boxes (in Qt speech) > > > I am sure this has been debated but what is the reason why we do not > > use > > good old tabs for these two panes? I'd say that what you using there > > can > > be good for sidebars, but not necessarily dialogs. > > On the contrary, I think that tabs are useful for whole dialog > sections, while ToolBoxes are more useful for collapsing parts of a > dialog. This is how these widgets are used at least in KDE. > > But if everybody thinks it is irritating, then change it to tabs. > I think there are three problems--(a) the users who are used to the old way might be getting annoyed at the changes, (b) the new interface does not present the available options in a self-explanatory way (not apparent that search is clickable, but there is what looks like a text field that cannot be typed into), and (c) the options that are available by default are not presented in the logical order of need (formatting is available before a citation is selected, and search is hidden). As for (a), I agree that people should just deal. But I think (b) and (c) are new problems with the GUI design that were introduced to fix something that might not have been a huge deal in the first place. What about at least changing it so that "Search" appears in "open position" or in a top tab, and "Formatting" is in a back tab? Maria > > Jürgen > > > > > JMarc > >
