That makes sense Tuomas; thanks. Another possibility is to encapsulate the buttons in a component similar to a toolbar. The toolbar can then be repositioned by the user. If this toolbar is dockable in the left pane (as well as the usual top, bottom, left, & right), it might provide a happy medium for everyone. It can even be turned off for maximum space savings. The toolbar can also handle (automatically or via user options) the flow/layout issues discussed at the beginning of this thread (1x4, 2x2, icons, text, etc).
Best regards, Nick On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 12:04, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 16:31, Nick wrote: > > Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason to confining these > > component buttons to the left pane? > > > > What about placing them "outside" the left and right panes? While it's > > not as "pretty" or appealing, has anyone considered using a tabbed > > control for this? Each "view" (mail, calendar, contacts, etc) does not > > pertain only to the left pane--they each populate both panes, right? > > This allows the the tabs (let's assume they're placed on the top or > > bottom) to be quite long as they have the length of the screen. From a > > logistics perspective, this makes sense as the controls affect more than > > the left pane. > > Vertical space is more valuable here since horizontally there is no big > problem at least with email - you have more than 80 chars wide message > display even if you resize the sidebars quite wide. > > But making stuff consume vertical space makes the message preview even > shorter, which is a bad thing. Having to scroll while switching folders > occasionally is less bad than having to scroll more for nearly every > email message. > > Tuomas > > -- > Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
