On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 03:10 +0000, kevin michel wrote: > Hi, > I'm currenly working on a new extension replacing tabs with a sidebar. > http://www.kmichel.info/projects/epiphany/ > > I think this may interest people with lots of tabs, I found it scales > better with more than 10 tabs > and allow faster visual scanning and reordering (less distances > between tabs). It's not really better than tabs on the left though, > except it's more compact and visually lighter.
That's actually a pretty good idea, exactly the same reason why the document list exists in gedit :D > * Incompatible with the Sidebar extension To fix it, I think someone should implement a side pane for epiphany, actually integrating the sidebar extension into the core. That side pane would actually be a bit different from what the one from gedit does, for instance, in the sense that it should be able to handle both extensions and bookmarked sidebars. I think it's the only simple and sane way to make the sidebar available for extensions in epiphany (another way would be to bring a full-blown extension dependency system) > * The close button is in a place we expect it to close the sidebar, > not the current tab. > I don't know where to put the "close current tab" button(s), > horizontal space is not cheap Maybe you just don't need it ; use a context menu instead. BTW did you look at the gedit implementation of such a sidebar ? (it lies in /gedit/gedit/gedit-document-list.c in SVN) It brings a few desirable features like document reordering (which is in turn reflected in the tab order, and the other way), and is implemented in C. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
