Feature Requests item #920663, was opened at 2004-03-21 16:57
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>Status: Closed
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Carlos Rodrigues (crlf)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: Preferences window doesn\'t feel right
Initial Comment:
This may be a bit of personal preference (or
nitpicking) but I feel the preferences dialog to be a
bit unorganized. I have some suggestions for it:
1. some categories that appear in the tree on the left
side could appear as tabs on the right side (like "IMs"
and "Chats" under the "conversations" branch);
2. some categories have a very small number of
preferences which seems to indicate that they could be
merged with others (for instance, the options -- one
option -- in the "interface" category could be inside
"buddy list");
3. "sounds" could be merged with "sound events";
4. the "away messages" section could go inside
"away/idle", possibly with a button there which would
popup a dialog to edit the away messages ("sound
events" and "sounds" could have a similar relationship);
5. instead of a subtree under "plugins", the "plugins"
section could have a button labeled "configure..."
which would popup a dialog with the preferences of the
selected plugin (or be disabled if the plugin has no
preferences or isn't active).
6. (a true nitpick) the dialog would look better if it
had landscape instead of portrait dimensions.
These ideas could allow the tree to be replaced
completely, maybe by a list with icons. I guess what I
am talking about is something along the lines of the
preferences dialog in evolution 1.4
[http://www.ximian.com/images/screenshots/evolution/preferences_mail.png].
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Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere)
Date: 2007-04-20 10:55
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As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is
still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks.
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Comment By: Carlos Rodrigues (crlf)
Date: 2004-03-25 17:01
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The thing is that your "nice list" seems rather raw,
especially since when we open it, it shows a category with
only one option.
I proposed the tabs only for _some_ categories and not a tab
overload.
As for the sounds, I don't think that something like a
button on the "sounds" branch makes users hunt down for
options. It's perfectly natural (at least for me) to go to
the "sounds" branch, select the event and click edit (which
could even be a small button on each line of the list
labeled "edit").
I'm proposing a _balance_ between the tree and the all tabs
approach because I feel that having categories with only one
option or one subcategory or categories that look like
copies of others makes the preferences dialog look
unfinished and ad hoc unlike other stuff like the
chat/message windows for instance.
I'm not against the whole tree thing and if my previous
suggestions are unacceptable I make another suggestion,
maybe only subbranches should have options, like gEdit's
preferences dialog.
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Comment By: Keith Constable (kccricket)
Date: 2004-03-25 14:27
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1. I think the whole idea of the list with the
subcategories is that you don't need to use tabs in the
other pane.
3. I don't personally think there's enough room for that.
How small are your fonts?
4 & 5. I don't think forcing users to hunt for a button to
bring up a sub-window is really an improvement over the
current implementation. You seem to be fond of hiding
configuration options in sub-windows or tabs behind other
windows. With the current layout, you get a nice list of
all the panels available and you can quickly scan all of
your settings without having to hunt for a seperate button
or look behind a tab.
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Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere)
Date: 2004-03-21 17:23
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#5 is certainly unacceptable, we used to do that and it did
not work at all, this was done to force people to realize
that these plugins have options that sometimes MUST be
looked at.
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