On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 13:27, Christian Persch wrote: > IMHO, it does make sense: consider this example: In Epiphany, you want > to modify your font settings. You go Edit->Preferences, switch to Font > tab, modify your fonts; close dialogue. A bit later, you notice it's > still not right, so you go back to the preferences dialogue. It should > open on the fonts page, but does not.
Usual usability answer: "it depends" :) If I'm opening the dialog from a generic menu item like "Preferences", then it's potentially useful to remember which tab was last used, for that session at least. (It drove me mad for years that Netscape/Mozilla didn't remember which set of preferences I accessed last-- Firefox seems to have fixed this). It gets a bit unclear if you can also access the dialog via menu items that take you straight to a particular tab though... should you remember that tab for the next 'generic' visit, or not? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
