On 4/11/07, Steve Frécinaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The context menu already exists but it's hard to use if you want to close many tabs at a time. Combined with the Close button in toolbar from the OnlyOneCloseButton this need > 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. The extension already has reordering ( and synchronised with tabs ). ------------------ Kevin MICHEL _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
