[Mageia-dev] Firefox prefs: insertRelatedAfterCurrent

Mon Mar 7 20:21:15 CET 2011

Op maandag 07 maart 2011 08:48:23 schreef Michael Scherer:
+>  On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 16:32:20 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote:
+> > On 3/6/11, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+> >> On 6 March 2011 21:11, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> >>> I find myself in the same scenario quite regularly too (20+ tabs)
+> >>> and
+> >>> find having the new tab at least quite close to the current one a
+> >>> massive usability improvement.
+> >> 
+> >> Indeed.
+> >> The reverse is annoying.
+> >> 
+> >>> It's also interesting to see the "reverse order argument" mentioned
+> >>> previously doesn't always apply. There are some heuristics in there
+> >>> as
+> >>> to whether it should be opened immediately to the right of the
+> >>> current
+> >>> tab or after the other tabs that have been opened recently.
+> > 
+> > Tabs should not extend "off the screenbut instead wrap and to
+> > multiple
+> > rows, IMHO.
+> 
+>  Then, it start to become more like a 2nd windows manager, and we go
+>  back to
+>  the MDI metaphor of win95.
+> 
+>  Another view would be that too much tabs is usually a sign that most of
+>  them
+>  are not needed now, and should not be shown. But this requires a more
+>  high level
+>  interface ( ie, sometimes that say "put the link to a 'read later'
+>  list" /
+>  "place it with other easy to access documentation" rather than a very
+>  low
+>  level operation like "open a new tab" to fullfill all possible
+>  needs regarding opening a windows )
+
+sometimes i just have alot of different tabs, perhaps it would be easier to 
+have tabs on the right side (most of us have widescreen monitors anyway).
+
+(and sometimes they are all related to the same topic)
+
+otoh, if every tab would be different window, any window manager i've seen 
+wouldn't do it properly either.
+
+perhaps window managers need to find a new way of handling such things,... 
+something original.
+