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I'm not a developer, but here's my two cents worth as a user/computer
trainer:<br>
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In SIL some of us are working on a Bible translation environment for
low-powered netbooks, that can be used with smallish solar panels for
translators in remote locations.<br>
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"Low-powered" means "small-screen," so maximizing usable screenspace is
good. I really like the look of your top-level tabbed windows model,
especially if the user can choose between tabbed/tiled (/cascaded?)
windows. I think the users we're targeting, often new to computers,
would prefer tabbed over cascaded windows. I think a button on the
toolbar might be useful for toggling between tiled/tabbed (once my
preferred tiled arrangement is set up).<br>
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I don't see much of an advantage to having tabs within windows... seems
like it uses up valuable screen space for those who don't have large
monitors.<br>
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Many thanks for all your hard work on improving BibleTime!<br>
Kim<br>
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Raoul Snyman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Gary,
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:08:22 -0800, Gary Holmlund wrote:
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<pre wrap="">While the top level tabbed windows I originally proposed would be easy
to do, I feel that the other choice you made or having tabs within
windows is a very good idea. I don't believe both should be done as we
would have tabbed windows with tabs inside of them. I don't think that
would look right.
I prototyped tabs within windows by taking the Qt demo program that is a
mdi program with QTextEdit widgets for its windows. I used a subclass of
QTabWidget as the windows and put the QTextEdit on each tab. Look at the
second graphic here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/New_Window_Arrangement_Modes">http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/New_Window_Arrangement_Modes</a>
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This looks great, I just have one question: what would be the purpose of
these tabs-within-windows? I'm not seeing a real use-case for it. Could you
perhaps explain the reasoning behind your idea?
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