+1 I don't have an awesome ui reason, but it sure goes against my intuition when my tabs shift. If these decisions are made, I would like to see them based in research rather than anecdotes, personally. On Sep 24, 2012 9:16 PM, "ttosttos Sa" <ttost...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oopss... watch out for that argument. It doesn't hold true for millions > (should probably say billions) of people around the world :-) I find the > shifting of all tabs a bit unintuitive. I personally find more natural > that new tabs fill the empty space instead of shifting all the existing > tabs. In addition, double click on the empty tabbar space currently has > the odd result of adding a tab far away from where the double click took > place (which should be where the user attention is). > > > --ttosttos > ps. On a somewhat related note, I think the widget could benefit from some > visual work. > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Voldyman <voldyman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Another argument can be that most of the languages we use are written >> from left to right so our mental model dictates that the new things should >> be on the right and the left side remains unchanged. >> example. >> we write >> D >> Da >> Dan >> -not >> n >> an >> Dan >> >> On Sep 25, 2012, at 6:10 AM, Daniel Fore <dan...@elementaryos.org> >> wrote: >> >> Yea I commented on the bug report, IIRC. >> >> The biggest argument I heard for tabs on the right side was that the >> mental model of the tabbar flow from most used to least used (just like the >> toolbar). So when you insert a new tab, you are by-definition placing the >> least-used (so far) tab on the left side in front of the most used (longest >> open) tabs. >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:50 AM, David Gomes <da...@elementaryos.org> >> wrote: >> >> Sergey, >> >> The other day we were talking about this on IRC and we almost changed >> Daniel's mind I think. I'm not 100% sure of what he thinks now, but the >> general opinion is to have tabs opening on the right on every single >> application for consistency with 3rd party apps, because we read from left >> to right and because adding tabs on the beginning makes our brain >> reorganize the tab system (we have to +1 the position of every single tab, >> since it gets changed). >> >> Those were some of the arguments presented. >> >> David "Munchor" Gomes >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >> <<ser...@elementaryos.org> >> ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: >> >>> I've just remembered - Ctrl+T adds tabs on the right of the current one, >>> not on the left. This seems inconsistent to me. Is it a Granite bug or it >>> should be fixed in the apps? >>> >>> -- >>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >>> OS architect @ elementary >>> >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: <https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community> >> https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : <elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net> >> elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : <https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community> >> https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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