Change panel/frames order?

Pablo Wolter pwolter at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 15:26:18 UTC 2013


I’m not proposing a change of the layout. I’m proposing to let the user change the layout as better suits him. So people who wants the list on the top left will have it there. People who doesn’t want the globe displayed, just with it off and the like.

On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

> Wont work, 
> W
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Pablo Wolter <pwolter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dirk,
> 
> Sorry it took me too long to be able to do the layout to show it … it is attached. Sorry the quality … I’m not good at this. Tried GIMP but just couldn’t figure it out.
> 
> As you can see I’m propose=ing the option to move the different windows around … I like the one I showed in the attach. The list on the left side and the options on the right. They are connected so for me makes sense have them side-by-side.
> 
> I don’t like to have the map/globe on all the time. So I just have it now all reduced to the right. Will make sense maybe put it as an additional tab next to Dive Notes / Equipment / Dive Info / Stats? 
> 
> <Layout-Subsurface.png>
> 
> On Nov 16, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> The main complain about the usability team that I showed subsurface is that the list is in the botton instead of topleft.
> I'm doing some experimentations with the globe, it will not be in it's current place for 4.1, but to hard to change right now.
> 
>> On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 18:23 -0800, Pablo Wolter wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In Subsurface the window is divided in 3 sections. On the top left
>>> side is the “Dive Notes/Equipment/Dive Info/Stats” section, which I’ll
>>> call Panel 1. On the top right side is the dive profile graph, which
>>> I’ll call Panel 2. Bellow or in the bottom side is the “Dive
>>> #/Date/ft/min/Location” section, Panel 3.
>> 
>> Actually, there are four. You are ignoring the globe...
>> 
>>> Panel 3 columns seem to be pretty fixed once a user has decided what
>>> he wants to see there. I was thinking on adding the option to “move”
>>> the panels around. For example I would like to have the Panel 2 on top
>>> and bellow it Panel 1 and Panel 3. So the graph is wider/bigger than
>>> the lists. Specially Panel 1 which is pretty fixed and Panel 3 is
>>> customizable (to fit a smaller space).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What do you guys think? Worth a shot?
>> 
>> I wonder how confusing this would be to users. Especially how hard it
>> would be to explain this well in the manual. I can, however, see how a
>> more flexible layout might be interesting to some users...
>> 
>> But playing around with the window sizes... given that what you call
>> panel 1 (the info tabs) is pretty demanding regarding its height (it
>> does gain a scrollbar if you have too little space, but that really
>> hurts usability) - putting that next to the dive list (panel 3) gives
>> you a very tall dive list - and therefore a wide but possibly not very
>> tall profile...
>> 
>> So let's say I'm not convinced. Can you use gimp or something like that
>> to produce a couple of convincing mockups that show that this would be
>> worth it? Or you can just shuffle them around in qt-designer...
>> whichever is easier for you.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> /D
>> 
> 
> Saludos,
> 
> Pablo Wolter
> pwolter at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> subsurface mailing list
> subsurface at hohndel.org
> http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
> 
> 

Saludos,

Pablo Wolter
pwolter at gmail.com



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.hohndel.org/pipermail/subsurface/attachments/20131119/2531a164/attachment.html>


More information about the subsurface mailing list