From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Alfredo_Fern=c3=a1ndez_D=c3=adaz?=" <lswitcher-dev@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: Re: [lswitcher-dev] Properties notebook verbiage
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:23:39 +0100
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Hi,

On 20/11/22 05:09, Lewis wrote:
> On 11/21/20 06:28 pm, Gregg Young wrote:

[ticket 79]
> The gist of it is that we have a properties notebook with four tabs:
>
> Popup | Taskbar | Miscellaneous | About
>
> In the help, we refer to the "Taskbar" as the standalone lSwitcher bar, and
> "Widget" as the XCenter widget. The properties tab includes settings for both
> the Taskbar and the Widget, so the label is misleading (implying only Taskbar
> settings on those pages).  In fact, page 2 of that tab includes Mouse actions,
> and page 3 has our Exclude filters. Clearly, the label "Taskbar" is
> inappropriate.

I hadn't noticed this until you mentioned it. I admittedly use the widget very 
little (mostly some testing), but I always thought of that tab as "Taskbar - 
whether standalone or widget", so no big deal for me.

The Mouse action page maybe should be #3, so page #2 would be "Filters" for 
both the PM popup and whatever taskbar is in use, but Mouse actions for the 
taskbars belong in each taskbar tab IMHO -- don't they apply to the 
taskbar/widget only, and not the popup?

> My suggestion is to rename this tab "List" and to change the title of the
> first page from "General" to "Appearance"

I find "List" rather unintuitive. Couldn't we have the tab dynamically named 
Taskbar/Widget depending on which one is used, just like some settings are 
enabled or disabled (grayed out)?

> and splitting the page into two areas:
>
> Common
>
>     3D look
>     Group items
>     Icons only
>     Maximum button width
>     Auto hide delay
>
> Taskbar
>
>     Enable
>     Auto hide
>     Allow resizing
>     Auto resize
>     Flat buttons
>     Top of screen
>     Bottom of screen
>     Reduce desktop workarea
>

I agree this would make clearer which settings apply to what taskbar. However, 
in the same vein, perhaps the "TaskBar" group could only appear in the dialog 
for the taskbar, and be absent from the dialog for the widget, instead of just 
grayed out.

> What is not mentioned in the ticket is that it would be more appropriate to
> reorder the tabs:
>
> List | Popup | Miscellaneous | About

Why? The Popup is always active, while the taskbar can be disabled, like the 
widget -- it won't be active unless you add it to some XCenter.

> Finally, and also not mentioned in the ticket, is that tabs with only a single
> page should not say "Page 1 of 1". In most notebooks, the page number is omitted.

True.

> This is all fit and finish stuff, of course, aside from the textual changes.

Also true.

Thank you,