On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Avdi Grimm <a...@avdi.org> wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo < > emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Regarding a tab based environment, Dolphin X6 also included that in a >> concept called "Idea Space", you can open as many idea spaces as you want, >> and as you browse classes, inspect objects or look for references, all the >> usual new windows will open inside the idea space where the command was >> issued. There also was the option to save the open tabs, to restore them >> later. And you could move between tabs using only the keyboard; in fact you >> could do everything without a mouse. >> > > For the record, I find tabs to be almost as much of a UI dead-end as > myriad windows. They are often incompatible with the need to see several > things at once, and they become unmanageable past a dozen or so. > > Personally I prefer environments where the number of windows/tabs/buffers > is a non-issue, something managed by the environment. All I care about is: > > a) Navigating back and forth between the thing I'm looking at now and the > last ~10 things I looked at; and > b) Quickly finding and foregrounding new things by whatever searchable > aspect I can remember about them. > > GTSpotter has a "history" category (not that I've used it so far, perhaps time to try).
It might be an interesting experiment for GTSpotter to have an "open window" category. cheers -ben
