I agree we shouldn't scroll through tabs with Alt-Tab, but I can understand where the problem comes from.
Very frequently I click on a link in Evolution or "open containing folder" or a file downloaded with Epiphany, and instead of having a new Nautilus/Epiphany tab open, the result is a whole new window. This is very annoying and creates multiple windows. Another problem is exactly that multi-multi-multi-tab problem: You have tons of tabs. Me too. Sometimes I have two Epiphany windows, just so that I can split the tabs into "categories". If we could categorize tabs or have them in a hierarchical structure in the app itself, we'd have less mess on the desktop. I think the points mentioned are worth a thought and some clever design. I believe Gnome is going in the right direction, but focusing on a single source of content is good only for the simple home user / content consumer. When working, one needs to be able to work with many windows and tabs effectively. To be honest, I've been using Gnome 3.4.2 for a while, and no later version, so I don't know how later versions changed the UI. On ב', 2013-06-17 at 17:38 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > hi Luis; > > On 17 June 2013 17:09, Luis Menina <liberfo...@freeside.fr> wrote: > > > I also whish one could cycle through the tabs of a tabbed application > > using just Alt+Tab too, gnome shell handling the tabs, to find the tab > > of the same application I was using 5s ago. > > you really, *really* don't want this. > > I currently have two Firefox windows open, the first with 41 tabs > (after I did a couple rounds of garbage collection, last night I was > at around 70), the other with ~50 tabs. then I have four or five > terminal instances, and within each I have between 3 and 7 tabs. tabs > are cheaper than windows, so people *do* use a ton of those. the > selector would become incredibly tiny, and hard to navigate — > *especially* on low-resolution displays like a netbook. > > ciao, > Emmanuele. > > -- > W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name > B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
