Tab Stops From Right - UI usability issues

[Aammppaa]

Paragraph Panel > Tab Stops > ... (extended options popup) > 'From Right'.

With multiple tab stops toggling 'From Right' changes the order of the tabs in the list.
This is logical, because the tab which is now measured 'From Right' places itself in order, working from left to right, but…

1. The popup remains open, which obscures the tab stop list, so it is not obvious that reordering has happened.
2. The popup no longer relates to the original tab stop, but to whichever tab stop happens to occupy that position in the reordered list.
3. The UI is ow out of sync: 'From Right' is ticked, even though it now applies to a tab stop which is not measured from the right!

All of this is rather confusing and unhelpful!

• Either the popup needs to close when 'From Right' is clicked.
• Or the popup should move to be above the original tab stop, wherever it appears in the newly reordered list.
• Or the popup needs to be removed altogether, as it seems largely redundant…

Each row of the tab stop list contains…

• Position
• Alignment
• Leader
• Delete

The popup panel contains…

• Alignment (+ decimal character)
• Leader (+ character input)
• Position
• From Right
• Delete

4 of these 7 options are duplicates, but in a different order! Not very elegant UI design IMHO.

Could the size of the Position input in the tab stop list be reduced (it can currently contain a 10 digit number!)
This, along with the loss of the ... popup panel icon would create enough room for a 'From Right' toggle.

Finally: In the text frame ruler, tabs measured from the right are flipped vertically, but this is not honoured in the iconography of the tab stop UI.
If this were consistent it would be visually apparent which tabs were from right and which from left.

Thanks.
 

 

[Chris_K]

Thanks Aammppaa

I've logged the UI being out of sync with the development team.  The rest are more suggestions so I will leave them for the dev team to consider directly

cHeers