Martin Ebourne writes: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:19 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > > Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a tiny > > little "close" button on a tiny little tab is? X-Chat Aqua used to > > do this but they sensible took it out. Firefox used to do this but > > they unsensibly put it back in!
And Gnome Terminal used not to have tab close buttons at all, but now has one on each tab. Several times I've closed one tab (which takes a while), then clicked to change to a different tab -- only by the time the click has registered the closing tab has finally managed to close, the tabs have all shuffled along, and my click has been registered on the close button of a completely different tab. And Gnome Terminal doesn't have an 'undo close tab' feature. And Gnome Terminal doesn't have a preference for turning this off. Hateful. > Well, you're right for you I presume, but definitely not right for > everyone. > > My style of browsing frequently involves closing of tabs which are not > currently active. Being configurable either way is fine, since different people obviously have different preferences (and different dexterity with aiming mouse clicks, differently responsive computers, etc). But _not_ having a close button on each tab only causes a slight delay in your way of working; having one causes data loss to those of us who accidentally click on them -- which is much more hateful. > It is intensely annoying to have to select each tab before closing it, I generally go for right-clicking on the tab in question and choosing close from the context menu. I also have some extension installed which adds tab-context-menu options for 'Close Right Tabs', 'Close Left Tabs', and 'Close Similar Tabs' -- so you can sometimes close a bunch of other tabs in one go. Smylers
