On 6/12/07, Christian Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2. Then redesign and reduce the number of tabs for all platforms.
Which would work if Sun's UX people (and in later phase, dev people)
would provide significant effort in doing that.
Otherwise it's like dumping all the nasty stuff to the small group of
already busy mac people and expecting them to do 3x more work (i.e. UI
that works in all Linux, Win, Mac platforms). Designing for one
platform is already hard...
For Windows, the current UI already works. It's maybe not the best
one, but it works. Designing something that works great on Mac OS X
might, in turn, be less ideal for Windows. Solving that mess is
something only Sun's heavy investment makes it worthwhile (as they
have the veto power to everything, and cross-platform changes are like
playing with fire).
Mox
Mox Soini schrieb:
> From post by Ismael to planet OOo:
> http://lebasket.free.fr/blog/index.php?2007/06/12/17-gsoc-two-styles-of-tabs
>
> (Ismael Merzaq — GSOC: two styles of tabs)
>
> This is one of the "systemic" issues with OOo. The fact that the whole
> OpenOffice.org has legacy in Windows, it makes very difficult to port
> to other user interfaces, if the mandate is to not touch the UI layout
> itself at all. The port will likely have inferior design, no matter
> how many shiny blue buttons you throw at it.
>
> The ideal solution would be to reduce the number of tabs to acceptable
> level (= 1 row). However this will probably never happen.
>
> Other almost good alternative would be to re-design the UI so that
> some other native Aqua UI element than normal tabs are used for
> selecting the different "pages".
>
> The undesired solution is to use Aqua in ways that it was never meant
> to (e.g. two-row tabs).
>
> Some hacks that are not good, but slightly better than two-row tabs
> would be:
> a) scrollable one-row tabs bar (left and right arrows on the ends of
> the tab row)
> b) expanding one-row tabs bar, where active tab has full text, while
> rest is truncated with something like "strin..."
> c) instead of horizontal tab bar, a vertical menu on the left side,
> similar to the OOo Preferences dialog (not Options, btw :)
>
> Mox
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