Change panel/frames order?

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Tue Nov 19 15:41:52 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Pablo Wolter <pwolter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

But... You can do that already.


>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Saludos,
>
> Pablo Wolter
> pwolter at gmail.com
>
>
>
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