Brett—
Are we talking about the history page, or history items? The history page
gets its own tab, sure. But when someone picks an item from the history
menu, where does it go? I think current foreground tab is right, with
command for background tabs.
Avi
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Brett Wilson <bre...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Robert Sesek<rse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Two things about the Mac history menu that I'd like people to weigh in
> on:
> > 1. The "Show All History" command should have a keyboard shortcut. We
> can't
> > use the logical Cmd+H because it's bound by the system. Stuart suggested
> > Cmd+Y, as that's what Camino uses. Firefox and Safari both lack keyboard
> > shortcuts for this menu command, so it's really up to us to define it. So
> > Cmd+Y seems as good as any other. Thoughts?
> > 2. Currently, items in the history menu open in the current foreground
> tab.
> > I'm currently working on a CL to make it so that if you hold down the Cmd
> > modifier while selecting a history/bookmark menu item, it will open in a
> new
> > tab. I was wondering, though, if we should instead reverse this behavior
> so
> > that history items (and maybe bookmark?) open in a new tab, and you can
> use
> > the modifier to open in the current tab.
>
> Windows always opens history in a new tab. I think this is the correct
> behavior: I don't think anybody expects going to history will clobber
> their current tab.
>
> I don't see why there should be a modifier key to clobber the current
> tab. It seems obscure, useless, and potentially confusing.
>
> Brett
>
> >
>
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