Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote:
Martin Ebourne wrote:
Well, you're right for you I presume, but definitely not right for
everyone.
Can't we all just hate everyone?
Hey, this list is for hating software, not people. Maybe a
hates-people list would be too scary.
Windows on the desktop tend to be more than half an inch wide. Big long
window bar, teeny little close button. Makes it hard to hit the wrong spot.
Ironically I think you're completely wrong on that one too. :)
Most windowing systems these days put the tiny little maximise button
right next to the tiny little close button in what has to be one of
the most stupid UI design decisions ever. I hit the wrong one far too
often.
Fortunately on sensible systems I can configure the window close
button on the left where I never hit it accidentally.
Though I notice Firefox got a few things right. The close button disappears
on inactive windows when the tab goes below a certain width, that's
good.
Ah, I think I see the problem now. I also hate the browser when it
squashes the tabs up so small that you can't tell which is which from
the title, or if the close button takes up too much of the title.
Fortunately one of the hateful firefox extensions lets you set a
minimum tab width(*) which means I can always see which tab is which
and there's plenty of width for me to click without hitting the close
button. With sensible scroll buttons on the tab bar, grouping of
opened pages together (so hate the default of always putting new tabs
on the far right), and the ability to drag them around I find working
with 20 tabs quite fine. (And I don't close tabs by accidentally
hitting the button, but do sometimes hit the wrong close button by
stupidity or just change my mind as I press it, so undo is nice too.)
But hey, do it your way. That's why we have configurable UIs.
I do agree with you on that point. :)
(*) I actually set a fixed tab width which means that tab's don't
randomly resize on me and makes things a lot more predictable. To
close a bunch of tabs together I just click close on the one on the
left of the group a lot and they all collapse in nicely, no mouse
movement at all. :)
Cheers,
Martin.
