Re: [Gnumed-devel] gui and functionality - a few random thoughts

[richard terry]

Hate your hierachy of nested notebook tabs horst, it lacks elegance. There is
no reason navigation can't be made transparent with our currrent system.

Regards

Richard

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 11:14 am, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:53, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > > Otherwise going from say the ante-natal chart to drugs and the back
> > > could take 3-4 clicks to resume what you were doing.
> >
> > Hm, I had hoped to be able to click once one the drugs tab, do
> > my thing, and click on the "clinical" tab again to be right
> > back where I was - "deep in the bowels of a clinical module".
>
> If we would have adhered to the paradigm I proposed initially
> - ONE window management system only
> - nested notebook widgets
> instead of this chimera of two independent window management systems we
> would not have this problem now.
>
> It is a lot easier to navigate a clear hierarchy of notebook tabs (where it
> usually takes a maximum of two clicks r key strokes to get where you want
> to get) than a non-transparent "intelligent" window management subsystem
> within a notebook panel.
>
> Horst
>
>
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