On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
> > > 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. > Interesting idea. Could be easily done :) Cheers, Andrei > > cheers -ben >
