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| <P ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Christian |
| Jansen</B></FONT></FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4><B>Proposal of a new |
| dialogue size and a modified tab page handling.</B></FONT></FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Problem 1:</B></FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">The current standard size of the |
| tabbed dialogues is not large enough. Due to this fact we are running |
| into trouble especially for the CJK – version of OpenOffice / |
| StarOffice.</FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Solution:</B></FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">The solution could be to provide |
| the user a new dialogue which is nearly double in height than the old |
| one. </FONT><A HREF="#Rahmen1|frame"><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">Figure |
| 1</FONT></A><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"> shows the proposed |
| dialogue in a rough sketch. The dotted line visualizes the change in |
| the total height, if more then one tab row is needed. In my opinion |
| it is not recommended to extend the dialogue in width too, because |
| most of the space is <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">needed </FONT>in |
| the vertical. And it give the whole look and feel a nicer touch, |
| because of the format which adopts the 4:3 ratio of the monitor. If |
| the dialogue is extended with a tree view for example it will have a |
| size of about 620 pixel in width (on a Windows system with a Tahoma |
| UI-Font 8pt, at a resolution 1280x1024 with 96 dpi).</FONT></P> |
| <P><IMG SRC="./b1.gif" NAME="Rahmen5" ALT="Rahmen5" ALIGN=BOTTOM></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">In a real world the dialogue could |
| look like the scribble in <A HREF="#Rahmen2|frame">figure 2</A>. </FONT> |
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| <P><IMG SRC="./b2.gif" NAME="Rahmen6" ALT="Rahmen6" ALIGN=BOTTOM></P> |
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| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Problem 2:</B></FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">Another problem that should be |
| solved is the circumstance, that to many tabs are confusing and hard |
| to handle for the user. Especially if more than two rows are used in |
| the design. </FONT> |
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| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Solution:</B></FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><A HREF="#Rahmen4|frame">Figure 3</A> |
| shows the original design of <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif">the |
| property dialogue of the CJK version</FONT>. (Also this is still the |
| old tab page size)</FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><IMG SRC="./b3.gif" NAME="Rahmen7" ALT="Rahmen7" ALIGN=BOTTOM></FONT></P> |
| <P><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><A HREF="#Rahmen3|frame">Figure 4</A> |
| shows how it could look with the new design. It provides a lot of |
| more clarity, than a dialogue with 14 tabs.</FONT></P> |
| <P><IMG SRC="./b4.gif" NAME="Rahmen8" ALT="Rahmen8" ALIGN=BOTTOM></P> |
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