2009/2/9 Allan Day <[email protected]>: > Hey all, > > I've been working (on and off) on reviewing all the bugs and other > discussions on tabs in GNOME [1]. It's reached a fairly mature stage > now. I think the review contains useful information about how tabs could > be improved in GNOME. Any comments or suggestions?
Not to encourage innovation or anything, but according to this study: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/12/casual_fridays_whos_tabhappy_a.php most people have less than 7-8 tabs open when they browse the net (IMO the number one tab use scenario really). And there's a simple reason for that; tabs just don't work when there's too many of them (ie. more than what can be reasonably accomodated by the window size). So rather than reinventing tabs and figuring out clever ways to make tabs work, in my personal opinion the same effort would do much more good in designing and implementing a better way to handle multiple views (eg. improving window management or using a canvas approach) than what tabs can offer... -- Kalle Vahlman, [email protected] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://sandbox.movial.com See also http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
