Le 08/09/2016 à 14:04, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :
Am Donnerstag, den 08.09.2016, 14:45 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc
Lasgouttes:
I am sure this has been debated but what is the reason why we do
not use good old tabs for these two panes? I'd say that what you
using there can be good for sidebars, but not necessarily dialogs.
On the contrary, I think that tabs are useful for whole dialog
sections, while ToolBoxes are more useful for collapsing parts of a
dialog. This is how these widgets are used at least in KDE.
But if everybody thinks it is irritating, then change it to tabs.
I would find tabs more irritating, because it does not has the same
meaning. It would be better to make the toolbox more convenient. I find
it an interesting tool that could be used elsewhere.
Le 08/09/2016 à 14:20, Maria Gouskova a écrit :
I think there are three problems--(a) the users who are used to the
old way might be getting annoyed at the changes, (b) the new
interface does not present the available options in a
self-explanatory way (not apparent that search is clickable, but
there is what looks like a text field that cannot be typed into), and
(c) the options that are available by default are not presented in
the logical order of need (formatting is available before a citation
is selected, and search is hidden).
With this nice summing up of the problem, I would suggest:
* for (b):
- Tabs can have an icon. Use this to reinforce the "open/closed"
state with a downward-pointing arrows and rightward-pointing arrows as
is done in other places.
- Try to fix tabulation
- Activate accelerators (as possible)
* for (c):
- Remember which tab was open in the previous session.
