Ben Goodger wrote:

> I have a plan, and unless anyone strenuously objects, I plan on
> executing it. The plan is to
>
> * Get rid of the giant preferences panel headers.
>
> Every other piece of software that I can think of that has a multipane
> preferences dialog similar to ours (Opera, Internet Explorer Macintosh,
> Microsoft Word 2.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver etc) simply rely on selection
> in the category tree as an indication of what is selected.

> Wins:
> - more vertical space (although this may allow me to widen the category
> list slightly and shrink vertically, so don't bet on an abundance)
> - less clutter

Nah, I don't think this could remove much clutter, while it will decrease in
readability.

If you're really going to hack these preferences panel, let them wrap/
scroll correcty without having the user to resize the dialog at every
panel (anyway this is probably a XUL problem, though..)

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