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As I have said - I will not implement tabs. If someone else is up to
the challenge - feel free.
Eric
On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 08:41 AM, Reid Ellis wrote:
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> On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 06:19 AM, John Keith wrote:
>> [..] this is a much better solution to tabbed windows.. And yes it
>> also overcomes my biggest bug with tabbed windows... if you close the
>> window you close all the tabs in it... and any unread messages will be
>> lost
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> If you've ever used Mozilla with tabs, you wouldn't worry about
> accidentally closing a window. In Mozilla, if you hit cmd-w, it closes
> that tab, and that's it. In order to close the window you have to hit
> cmd-w a bunch of times or shift-cmd-w or click on the close button of
> the window.
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> Drag-and-drop tabs that can be docked inside any chat window or torn
> off on their own scales well and allows the user to arrange their
> windows as they see fit. Best of all, the UI doesn't need to change
> very much. Just add a "tab" to the list of configurable tools for a
> chat window and have the tab be a draggable object which, if dragged
> into another chat window, adds the conversation as a tab in that
> window. The tabs have to be draggable too so that you can drag
> conversations out into their own window or into another window, as you
> like. Windows with only one conversation don't show any tabs at all
> [again, like Mozilla].
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> This is very similar to the UI used in Adobe Photoshop to arrange
> palettes of tools. Try it there to see what I mean.
>
> The beauty of this is that people who don't like it don't have to use
> it and Fire will behave as it always has. However, those of us who
> prefer tabs will have a much richer experience.
>
> Reid
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