On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 17:30 +0100, Jef Driesen wrote:
> When doing software development, I usually have many files open in my
> texteditor (gedit). With such a large amount of tabs open, the tabbar is
> almost useless, except for tabs that are located closely together. But I
> have to admit that I really like the gedit sidebar that shows a vertical
> list with all open files.
>
> Compared with the tabbar, this sidebar can show a much longer list and
> its width is usually larger (and can be enlarged as necessary). On top
> of that, it supports search-as-you-type. For many documents, this is a
> much better user interface than a tabbar. I think other applications
> could benefit from using a similar approach too.
This is really just the existing HIG guideline for tabbed dialogs, but
sensibly-applied to tabbed document windows:
If you have more than about six tabs in a notebook, use a list
control instead of tabs to switch between the pages of controls.
For example:
<http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/images/controls-notebook-list.png.en>
Cheeri,
Calum.
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