[UI-REVIEW] Move Character Details to separate dialog or switchable pane
Submitted by Lars Weber
Link to original bug (#130618)
Description
Using a notebook tab to display character details has the following problems:
- Selecting something on one tab changes what is displayed on the other; this is non-standard and confusing behavior that the HIG says should be avoided[1].
- If the details are meant to be looked at only in rather rare circumstances, their current placement promotes them to much.
- It's tedious to view the details of multiple characters in sequence since one always needs to switch back and forth between the two tabs.
What I'd propose is to move the character details either to a separate dialog or to something like the switchable pane in the GNOME system monitor (i.e. the one viewable by clicking on "More Info >>"; in the case of the Character Map it would be positioned directly below the character table so that it takes part of the tables space when expanded).
The advantage or disadvantage (depending how you look at it) of a separate dialog would be that it would give the character details less credit than a switchable pane would do. (The dialog would be accessible through something like `Map [a.k.a. File] -> Character Details' and I think would automatically update to always show the details of the currently selected characters. Having separate dialogs for separate characters would be more simple UI-wise but would have the disadvantage of beeing more difficult to handle when viewing the details of multiple characters.)
[1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/controls.html#controls-notebooks
Version: 1.2.x