[GNC] survey: unifying the appearance in different options dialogs

[Di Mang]

2018-08-01 13:58 GMT+02:00 Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
>:

>
>
> > On Aug 1, 2018, at 4:57 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> >
> > Op dinsdag 31 juli 2018 00:51:54 CEST schreef Di Mang:
> >> Hello Geert and Adrien,
> >>
> >> I agree it is a good idea to revise the report options and possibly
> >> summarize to reduce the number of tabs.
> >> There are currently
> >> some reports that have tabs with only a few settings.
> >>
> >>
> >> But in my opinion it would not be a good solution to move away
> completely
> >> from tabs for *all* option dialogs.
> >> For option dialogs with only a few reports it will take up too much
> space
> >> on the window.
> >
> > This doesn't make sense to me. If we move to "tabs" on the left for at
> least
> > one option window, we need to dimension the window anyway that it will
> fit on
> > the smallest screen we wish to support. How would this minimal dimension
> be
> > affected by the number of "tabs" in that area ? (I'm quoting "tabs"
> because
> > it's not the exact term for the exact widget I had in mind, more on that
> > below).
> >
> > Having a consistent way to represent options throughout the application
> is
> > more important to me.
>
> I agree. Options shouldn’t switch to one or the other based on their
> quantity. All of these dialogs should be consistent. And if it can work
> once...
>

> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I think we
> >> have to
> >> distinguish between different
> >> option
> >> dialogs / windows:
> >>
> >> *
> main window:
> an exception, because of dynamic tabs (with a scroll bar if
> >> necessary)
> >
> > Indeed, although a scroll bar for tabs is a bit awkward.
> >
> >>
> >> *
> >> windows with main preferences: currently with
> tabs on the left side (like
> >> in Geany)
> >
> > I suppose you mean “many" preferences.
> >
>
> Perhaps the
> ‘main’ app preferences, which does use the sidebar list. The Gnome desktop
> does the same.
>
>
Yes,

I meant here the "main" app preferences: like "Edit" > "Preferences" in
GnuCash.

For more clarity find examples of different dialogs in the appendix.

>>
> >>
> An alternative solution may be
> >> the Side Bar List instead of Tabs on the left side (like in LibreOffice,
> >> Gimp, Firefox)
> >
> > I surely agree a Side Bar List is better and that (or something similar)
> is
> > what I had in mind. In fact I thought that's what you meant as well as
> the
> > option dialogs for several reports were showing a list of groups instead
> as a
> >> list of tabs on my system already before your change.
> >
> > Yes Side Bar List is the proper widget from what I can glean from the
> Gnome HIG.
> > I thought that was what Di Mang was referring to as well.
>

Yes, I think the
S
ide Bar List is a good solution for a list of many different settings.

>
> >> * option dialogs with only few tabs: tabs at the top position (like in
> >> Geany, Gedit, Gimp, LibreOffice)
> >
> > As said that would then break consistency again. Wasn't that your
> initial
> > argument (which I like) ?
> >
>
> My ideal solution would be a dynamic side bar list. That is if there's
> enough
> > horizontal screen space (and the dialog is wide enough) show the list
> > permanently. If the dialog gets narrowed (either due to user action or
> due to
> > limited screen space), make the list hidden by default (with a button to
> show
> > it) and when that button is clicked make it hover the actual content.
> >
> > Here's a video of another application implementing this behavior (though
> from
> > the KDE world):
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24jdjE5Q6E
> >
> > Clearly this is for gnucash 4.x at best...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Geert
>
> Interesting. I don’t suppose Gtk+4 has this in the works?
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
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