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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: tabbed browsing?
From:       Troels Tolstrup <troels () tolstrup ! org>
Date:       2002-04-15 1:01:29
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> I was thinking of either doing that or just having the right click
> close the tab, and have middle click break the tab off into its own
> window.  Because there really isnt any much you can do to a tab other
> than close it or move it to a new window.  However, it might surprise
> new users trying to get a context menu.

Isn't it possible to add a small X button to each tab? Actually that 
might make it too easy to stuff up :/ I consider opening and closing of 
tabs a task that is done very often, so whatever you do please try to 
make it wrist friendly :) (both with keyboard shortcuts and mouse 
actions) IMHO using the context menu is *not* wrist friendly.

>
> And as for opening new tabs, I guess I could do both
> Ctrl+Shift+LeftMouse and middle mouse open a link in a new tab. 
> Although, I haven't really looked at how khtml handles mouse clicks,
> we'll see.

If you do use middle mouse button (which i personally prefer) then you 
should probably make it configurable since the people who use it to 
open in new window might get pissed :) (im one of those too, but i 
would rather open in new tab than new window)

One other thing you could do with tabs is change the order of them. This 
would be nice for the disorganized users (im one:) who open a lot of 
tabs and then read them in random order while opening and closing lots 
of new tabs. Of course the detach feature would kinda solve this too.

And while we are at feature requests ;) it would be nice if one could 
tell which tabs are loading. Maybe use a mng icon while it is loading? 
(im guessing here, i have no idea if this is possible)

Keep up the great work :)

- -Troels
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