Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 22:56:17 CEST
Michael Rosenbruch schrieb:
Here the "enhanced" mockup sorry for the german stock-buttons
> Hi Rob,
>> On 4/18/07, Michael Rosenbruch <michael@rosenbruch.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> here is a screenshot of my suggested ap_UnixDialog_Tab...
>>> 1). it shows always the defined tabs
>>> => Why should we hide them?
>>> 2). on the left side you find, how to set a new, or
>>> the properties to change them
>>> 3). on the right side you see all the tabs and
>>> manage them (could delete them)
>>>
>>> If you think that is better than the existing dialog, then I would
>>> implement it, and fix all the bugs with the units...
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I don't really see how this is much different from what we have now,
>> except for the user tab-list and -buttons to be swapped.
>> Also the widgets are not properly aligned:
>> 1) Labels "Default tab stops" and "User-defined Tabs" are not left
>> aligned
>> 2) Tab list is not right-aligned properly
>> 3) Indentation of the "Position", "Alignment" and "Leader" widgets is
>> non-standard (see HIG)
> I am not familiar with HIGs. Thank you for your comment... I will
> improve that
>> 4) "Hinzufügen" and "Löschen" buttons are not aligned.
>>
>> What we have now is certainly not optimal, but I don't see any
>> improvement in your mockup. Whether user-defined tabs should be hidden
>> by default of not can be argued, of course.
> The main reason for changing that dialog is: for me it is nearly
> unusable.
> If I want to insert a new tab, lets say at position 5.3cm its hard to
> achieve that. Here the steps with actual dialog:
> 1. open user-defined tabs
> 2. click insert (I do not know why I would say insert not having
> specified anything)
> 3. select inserted tab
> 4. correct the value to 5.3cm ->other bug it shows only 5.0
> 5. ready
>
> For me it would be better, if I can
> 1. type 5.3
> 2. click insert
> 3. ready
>
> I think for western countries it is more customary to
> work from left to right, rather than from right to left, that is why I
> suggested to swap ...
>
> May be there are other uses. Please tell me them.
>
> Best
> Michael
>
