El Domingo, 28 de Mayo de 2006 12:08, Jani-Matti Hätinen escribió: > On the other hand, while grouping all tab specific stuff within the tab is > intuitive, it would pretty much mean that the tab bar would have to be > placed into the window title, along with a menu including all the common > functions (new window, close, settings, etc.). Everything else would be > situated within the tabs. > > One option (although I'm not sure if it's really doable) would be to make > tabs more generic. After all, tabs were originally created because managing > a lot of windows is a real pita. So, if one were to think of a way to group > and organise windows in a way similar to tabs, one might be able to create > a more generic solution (something like a frame/context specific taskbar, > which would also allow grouping different applications).
Interesting proposal, but maybe too much innovative?? It could be a good idea to have the tabs above the window title, but I think it'd be too much strange for most of users (IMHO). The reason I set the navigation bar above the tabs is because the navigation bar is always THE SAME, there are not more icons in the navigation tab depending of the showing tab. In fact, IMHO in the navigation bar there just should be the following: - Buttons Up, Back, Forward, Stop, Reload - Navigation URL field - Search box (it could show different thing depending of the tab, but just it) - Split window (optional) But as you say we still have the problem of the specific tab menu. IMHO the menu should be in the top of the window, like in any common app. Yes, it could be different with each kind of tab, but I hope that a good content manager should avoid the common user to access the menu for common actions (these common actions should be done just by using the specific toolbar below the tab that contains labeled icons). I think only advanced users should need to use the menu for more advanced actions, and they have no problem if the menu is different in each tab (they understand it). In fact in my mockup I hide the menu in a "menu" button in the top-left corner, because I hope that it is not needed for common actions in any kpart. -- Iñaki _______________________________________________ Appeal mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/appeal
