> 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.

Too many entries in list/tree/tab panels is also a bad UI design.

> 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?

Yes, and the way to do that (IMHO) is scrollbars in the dialog.
It's not designing the contents to fit inside a stamp sized dialog that fits
screens that 99.9% of the users don't have:)

> 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.

We seem to agree that for the designed size no scrollpanes should be
visible.

I also say is that it's a very bad implementation that makes it impossible
to use something in smaller screens than designed for - specially when there
are simple ways to avoid it.

Carlos



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