The problem with a normal table is you get a result like this: ##### | Really Long Description | Another big description | A third description | User 1 | User 2 | User 3 |
I won't bother adding the spaces since the display will strip them out, but I think you can figure out how that grid wastes space when the only content for the intersecting cells would be a check-box or a small icon. Countless other systems that use tables, from (game) Clue-cards, to tables on posters and many other professional publications over the years have used a simple solution; tilt the information sideways. The most basic form is to start with a single character wide cell, and enter the letters vertically. X X Y X Y Z X Y Z X Y Z However this has a problem of starting the words at different areas, or wide visual gaps between the end of the words and the columns. A solution to that is to tilt at an angle, such as a / ; Often reading from the lower left up to the upper-right. It seems not even CSS3 supports doing the kind of thing I was thinking of. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#GlyphOrientation That is, rotating the entire line like in GIMP such that the letters were rendered in an ascending order from left to right along a tilted cell floor. Open Office 3.x example. Create a 3x5 table like this... (tab) This is a group (tab) And another 1 2 3 4 Select the heading cells, and Format Cells. Select Alignment, set it to something like 60. Shrink the cells horizontally and grow as needed vertically. Notice how it's still quite readable and takes up far less space across the screen. Such a format would allow for very dense clustering of groups. If there are profiles that include normal, administrative, and 'other' groups they could also be sorted in to that order, then every other column could have a darker shade then the one next to it, allowing the viewer to more easily trace the columns. -- [Wishlist] users-admin ease of use improvements (table based editing) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456948 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
