On Friday 15 December 2006 22:09, Anders Olofsson wrote: > 1.) This is a normal tree structure inspired mostly by kde's control > center. Icons are not required but they help make the dialog more > colourful. > I like this one the most as it gives a good overview of all available > pages and requires less clicking to get to an option compared with the > other two styles. > On the downside, this can look a bit messy.
I agree with you and Eugene that #1 is the best of the three. As long as it isn't made into kcontrol, with too many options, requiring several minutes of searching just to find the option you was looking for. As for icons, I'd say that they are required. Otherwise it will just look ugly. > 3.) This is a style that Erik described to me. I'm afraid the screenshot > is not as good as what he described to me but I could not find any way to > implement it any better with the qt widgets. > The idea is to have a column of icons (as in no 2) but instead of having > tabs, when you click on an icon, the sub pages appear under the icon. > I think this could work as good as no 2 having the same advantages and > disadvantages. But you missed the thing most important: the beautiful animation as the sub tree fades in below the icon the user clicked on, pushing the other icons away. Who cares about usability when we can have animations? ;) > I'm willing to try and implement a new option dialog for licq myself but > first I need to know how it should look so please provide me with feedback > and comments. Properly implemented, there shouldn't be much trouble switching between the different designs (should the need arise). After all, the difference is just where users click to show a option page. The pages themselves should all look the same. With that said, I'm all for #1. If you decide to do the work (as I hope you will), please use the Qt4 branch. // Erik
