Dave Hooper wrote: >>How about copying IE's setting dialog and its' help popups (which both are >>usable in 640x480): http://iki.fi/tumu/ie_settings.png (try right mouse >>button too).
Come on, let's stop this discussion. It really leads nowhere and is of really no importance anyway. None of the active developers seems inclined to go through the hazzle of dividing the 5 configuration pages onto 10 (btw I hate IE's configuration dialog) just to make it fit fully onto really old screens. If you have such an old screen, simply use an texteditor and config the .ini file yourself. I do it all the time. But because I am a nice guy, I'll rationally explain to you why I think IE's dialog is shitty: - As Drunken Dave(tm) (SCNR) already pointed you cannot grab that IE dialog with the right button and drag it around as well, so that leaves it with a) smaller dialogs and b) the help button thingy a) Smaller dialogs: Do you really think 10 configuration tabs would be nice to navigate through? All apps which use two or three rows of tabs for config dialogs did something wrong in my eyes. Feel tree to contribute a tree view configuration � la Netscape. And secondly even IE's /nice/ look comes at a prize: They put all the crucial basic stuff on the first 4 pages (which is ok) but have so many preferences left, that they have one advanced page where all the really important stuff is just listed with radiobuttons in a very long, flat, confusing list. Do you prefer that as a superior design? b) The help button to save space because you can remove the help texts from the page: Did you ever (besides for the screenshot you took) actually click on these things, when not *really* forced to? I venture to say that for the very same mysterious reasons why "users don't read documentation(tm)", they do not click on this little question mark, just in order to get the help text for a certain setting. I'd guess in a frequently used list this button would appear right below "format c: /y". And if something is crucial for users to know, you simply have to stick it directly in their face (my experience, YMMV). Besides we already have a help button. It leads to an ridiculous empty help page. How about contributing content to that help page instead of complaining about dialog designs :-)? > Times have changed, ... Darn, why come I feel so old everytime I read this sentence. Happy drinking Dave Sebastian _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
