Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Christian Dywan
Am Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:50:04 -0600 schrieb Cody Russell brats...@gnome.org: So, right now GtkNotebook allows you to change tabs by using the mouse wheel. Once I noticed this and the more I thought about it, it really seems like a terrible feature and one that may be detrimental to usability.

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2010/3/11 Sandy Armstrong sanfordarmstr...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Luca Ferretti elle@libero.it wrote: Il giorno mer, 10/03/2010 alle 16.50 -0600, Cody Russell ha scritto: Just wanted to post on the lists and see if people have thoughts on this, otherwise I'm probably

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Tomas Bzatek
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:16 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote: Using the mouse wheel that way in a web browser or text editor is a very convenient feature. It is much quicker than having to move the pointer to one of the sides only to switch tabs. Please don't break it just because you never used

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Carlos Garnacho
Hi! :), On mié, 2010-03-10 at 16:50 -0600, Cody Russell wrote: So, right now GtkNotebook allows you to change tabs by using the mouse wheel. Once I noticed this and the more I thought about it, it really seems like a terrible feature and one that may be detrimental to usability. I may

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Cody Russell
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:16 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote: Using the mouse wheel that way in a web browser or text editor is a very convenient feature. It is much quicker than having to move the pointer to one of the sides only to switch tabs. Please don't break it just because you never used

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Cody Russell
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 09:20 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: If there ends up being a bug report about this, please share the bug number. And hopefully we can get some usability nerds involved in this decision. I agree with Sandy here, I would leave this decision up to the usability guys.

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 07:27 -0600, Cody Russell wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 09:20 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: If there ends up being a bug report about this, please share the bug number. And hopefully we can get some usability nerds involved in this decision. I agree with Sandy

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Colomban Wendling
Shaun McCance a écrit : On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:25 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Cody Russell brats...@gnome.org wrote: He suggested that maybe there's a use for it in the case that you have a ton of notebook tabs open, but

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2010/3/11 Vinicius Depizzol vdepiz...@gmail.com: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:01, Carlos Garnacho carl...@gnome.org wrote: I may understand not all notebooks need this feature. Perhaps we could have a MDI mode in GtkNotebook, so features such as mouse wheel scrolling and tab switching on

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Actually, this reminds me of an issue I had while trying to fix tabs in the Mac OS X/Quartz engine. Basically, on MDI, the Mac preference tab mode, is pretty weird, that's why Safari and Firefox have their own drawn tabs instead of the typical tabs in a preference dialog. If we had a setting

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! Am Donnerstag, den 11.03.2010, 14:20 + schrieb Alberto Ruiz: Now that I think about it, I think the notebook needs a review from a wider perspective. We are trying to make this class one-size-fits-all-cases. We already discussed about simplifying this widget a bit (we already

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-11 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2010/3/11 Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de: Hi! Am Donnerstag, den 11.03.2010, 14:20 + schrieb Alberto Ruiz: Now that I think about it, I think the notebook needs a review from a wider perspective. We are trying to make this class one-size-fits-all-cases. We already discussed about

GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-10 Thread Cody Russell
So, right now GtkNotebook allows you to change tabs by using the mouse wheel. Once I noticed this and the more I thought about it, it really seems like a terrible feature and one that may be detrimental to usability. I talked to Matthias briefly on irc, and he seemed to agree. He suggested that

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-10 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! I talked to Matthias briefly on irc, and he seemed to agree. He suggested that maybe there's a use for it in the case that you have a ton of notebook tabs open, but I'm not quite convinced. Just wanted to post on the lists and see if people have thoughts on this, otherwise I'm probably

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-10 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:25 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Cody Russell brats...@gnome.org wrote: He suggested that maybe there's a use for it in the case that you have a ton of notebook tabs open, but I'm not quite convinced.

Re: GtkNotebook scrolling usability

2010-03-10 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 03/11/2010 12:35 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: I do it all the time. But I don't think I ever do it in preference dialogs or other places where there's a static set of tabs. I'm sure there are people who trigger this accidentally, and it's very annoying for them. And I'm sure there are people