On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:50 PM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:45:17 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:19:55 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> > > said: > > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:04:19 +0100 Stefan Schmidt > > > <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > > > On 06/19/2012 12:44 PM, David Seikel wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:37:37 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The > > > > > Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> no - i dont want that. i want to do something more like wp2. > > > > > > > > > > What's wp2? > > > > > > > > I think he refers to wallpaper 2. Settings -> Wallpaper 2 from the > > > > menu. > > > > > > Which is nice to have as an option, but does not do all the things > > > tabs can do. So it's not a replacement for tabs. > > > > does what tabs do when u bring it up. in fact its better as u get full > > previews. i dont plan on making any regular tabs. > > It's the "when you bring it up" part that's the problem. Tabs don't > need to be "brought up" to show you the info they display. You don't > have to do anything to keep an eye on programs that change the tab text > to show you progress or something important other than look up (on the > tabs that's not the one you are using right now). You don't have to do > anything to see which tab is which when you carefully name them. This > is not better for those uses of tabs. It hides the info you want to see > at a glance and makes it a separate step to get to that info. > > Most of my terminal tabs are running MC, some on the same directories, > they will look identical or almost identical in a thumbnail that's > small enough to show them all. That's not gonna help me at all. > > Doing something different is good, it's just not "better" if it removes > useful functionality. Your idea is good, it just removes useful > functionality that is provided with tabs. It's no substitute for tabs, > it's something completely different. > > The tabs themselves aren't very useful either. All they do is show the terminal title, which is useless most of the time, so you wont be able to differentiate between them if you just sat down in front of that terminal for the first time. At the end of the day, most of us probably use hotkeys to jump between tabs, and that will work just as well in a wp2 context. > -- > A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants > coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
