Visible Whitespace Dialog

[Nathaniel Gray]

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:40 pm, Joor Loohuis wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 19:46, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> > I made a little mock-up of what I think a visible whitespace dialog
> > might look like.  It's pretty rough -- I just want to see what
> > people think of the idea.
>
> Or a bit simpler:
> [Snip kmail-mangled ascii-art]

I like this layout quite a bit, but part of what I was trying to do with 
the dialog was to eliminate the term "backlighting" as much as 
possible.  In the end it's just another way of getting visible 
whitespace.  The user doesn't need to know that the tab glyphs are 
brought to her via "visible whitespace" while the tab background is 
brought via "backlighting".

Also, it seems bogus to call the first group "Tabs and Spaces" when tabs 
and spaces both appear in both groups.  Finally, I'd want Tabs and 
Spaces to be in the same order in both groups.  ;^)

So I'd say keep the layout but change some of the titles:
   Visible Whitespace and Backlighting --> Visible Whitespace
   Tabs and Spaces --> Foreground
   Backlighting --> Background

======================= Visible Whitespace ===========================
|                                                                    |
|  ---------------------- Foreground ------------------------------  |
|  |                                                              |  |
|  |                   Enable                                     |  |
|  |                    Glyph Glyph  Foreground Color             |  |
|  |              Tabs   <*>   [*]   [light gray____]             |  |
|  |            Spaces   <*>   [»]   [light gray____]             |  |
|  |                                                              |  |
|  ----------------------------------------------------------------  |
|                                                                    |
|  ---------------------- Background ------------------------------  |
|  |                                                              |  |
|  | <*> Basic                                                    |  |
|  |                                 Background Color             |  |
|  |                          Tabs   [white_________]             |  |
|  |                        Spaces   [white_________]             |  |
|  |            Control Characters   [red___________]             |  |
|  |                                                              |  |
|  | < > Advanced                                                 |  |
|  |                                                              |  |
|  |   Backlighting String   [________________________________]   |  |
|  |                                                              |  |
|  ----------------------------------------------------------------  |
|                                                                    |
|         [OK]        [APPLY]        [DISMISS]        [HELP]         |
|                                                                    |
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