Because each time the user clicks on a pane in the right column the pane gets focus, a click to expand a pane gives the Summary element focus and a click to collapse a pane also give the summary element focus. This gives rise to the strange behavior that, given that I have pane "A" and pane "B" open, when I close pane "A" so that I can "focus" my attention on the contents of pane "B", the element that is in focus is pane "A" not pane "B".
Additionally the ability to expand any or all of the panes creates a more visual noise on the page and adds to the "tyranny of small decisions" effect while at the same time possibly forcing scroll when it might not really be necessary.
Last, there is the usability regression where, when all of the panes are collapsed, they do not have the summary of configuration that is so effective in vertical tabs at preventing the user from opening and closing all of the tabs to see what is configured/configurable.
Even worse, because of the focus effect, my eye is tricked into thinking that the URL alias field is a child of Comment settings!
Return to the approach used in vertical tabs where only one pane is visible at a time with summaries of the configured options. Instead of rendering as tabs use accordion effect. Also remove extraneous styling to take away excess visual noise. Last, replace the default focus effect with one that will not seperate the label from the pane.
All tasks above are UI changes.
Closed: outdated
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No meaningful contributions have been made to this issue for 9 or more years. A related issue has been tagged which was created around the same time as this and has been more active since.
I am closing this as a outdated. Please re-open if you think that that other issue does not cover some scope needed here but then we should perhaps narrow the scope in that event.