On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Avdi Grimm <a...@avdi.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo <
>> emaring...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> 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.
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> GTSpotter has a "history" category (not that I've used it so far, perhaps
> time to try).
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> It might be an interesting experiment for GTSpotter to have an "open
> window" category.
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Interesting idea.
Could be easily done :)

Cheers,
Andrei


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> cheers -ben
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