Talk:Preferences

I think the list of Preference tabs will look much better as a (properly formatted) table, given the short text explanation, so I changed it. I don't think this means changing the current layout in the Preferences pages to tables, because that would waste space given the much longer text. What I am suggesting is that an "overview" list with bullets and brief text looks better as a table. - Gale

OK, I've just finished updating the old prefs tabs pages, and created new ones to correspond the the new layout of the prefs dialog. In the case of updated pages I've created the proposed new page inside an editornote, so that users will continue to see the old page until we're ready to switch. In the case of new pages I've just created them - there are no links yet to these new pages so users will not see them. In most cases I've put Mac versions of the prefs tabs as the top image 'cuz that's what I've got. They're OSX 10.5 versions BTW.

I've used the h2 plus bullet-list format.

When we're ready to go live with the new pages, I think we should, on this page, flip the old list into an editornote so it's still available. We need to go through all the links to the old pages and update them to point to the new pages. For example, the 'old' Audio I/O page has been split into the Devices, Playback and Recording pages.

-Bill W

I don't think I like prettytableb. Column 1 seems to have valign="middle" and column 2 valign="top". In any case the rows of text don't line up. - Bill  Gale: The table cells are all correctly top-aligned in the CSS. The problem is the bullets in the first table cell. They are padded/formatted somehow in the CSS, so throwing the valign out. It works fine in HTML with unstyled bullets. Even padding the second td doesn't work exactly because the texts becomes increasingly misaligned the more rows there are. Do you really want bullets? Do we use them anywhere else in tables? If so you'll need to create an unformatted UL class and use that here instead. If no bullets, what works best, centering of the first cell as below, or indentation, to take the place of the bullet? Bill: - Oops. No, I didn't want bullets. Good catch. I can't even remember why they're there - maybe because I copied the text from the main page? Anyway, I like the look of it now.  Gale: I do think the left-hand cells need a bit of padding; the right-hand edge of the text in the other cells will almost never reach anything like as close to the right table edge as the text in the first cell is to the left-edge. By all means play with different px values but I think we should make that change. Bill: I think the second column could use some left-padding as well, otherwise the text in that column is uncomfortably close to the first column, but only in the case of the longest text in the first column. This is shaping up nicely.