"Carlos Costa e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message adipsv$66i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:adipsv$66i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I disagree. I hate it when a property dialog like idea "IDE Options" > occupies all the screen real estate and can't be resized to show other > windows at the same time. Agreed. But that just means the current design of the dialogs do not take smaller screens into account. Like the use of multiple group boxes on one page; these can be split into tabs or separate pages. Admittedly, not in all cases but definitely some pages like Editor which has 7 group boxes, some of which could be split into sub-pages (in the treeview) or into tabs on the Editor page. > What tweak? As I described above. It's more than a tweak though. > More scrollpanes or more entries in the list at the left? More entries in the list may make sense for certain pages and not for others. It needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis. > Then each panel will have far fewer fields. > Then the 99.9% of users that have screens with more than 800x600 will have > to use lots of entries and each one will have half the screen space wasted! But you say in the next paragraph that you want the dialog to take up less screen space so that you could see other windows? > There's no way - without a LOT of work (multiple dialog designs for the each > screen size) - of having the UI fit all screen sizes. Not different designs for different screen sizes. Just one better design that will fit all screen sizes. > Either you design to a small screen and there's a lot of wasted space on > bigger screens or the inverse. I would prefer wasted space on a bigger screen because it's just a preferences dialog. It's not something that you use 8 hours a day. > It's possible to have frames/dialogs with everything inside a scrollpane and > with a little care in the desing/programming the scrollbars dont appear when > the frmae/dialog is shown (if theres enough screen real estate:). If the scrollpane route absolutely has to be taken because there is no other alternative (and I believe there is) then what you propose here would be acceptable. If I don't see scrollpanes, I'll be happy. Ciao, Gordon _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
