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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: tabbed browsing?
From:       Doug Hanley <hanleyman () adelphia ! net>
Date:       2002-04-15 1:41:13
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On Sunday 14 April 2002 10:59 pm, Troels Tolstrup wrote:
> > 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.
>

It is possible to add a small X button (icon) to each to tab, but that would   
have to replace the favicon since you can only have one icon at a time on a 
tab.  Yes, I agree, we want our users to have healthy wrists :)  Simple 
clicking actions seem best.

> > 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)
>

I'm gonna start looking into this configuration thing.  I've never really 
coded with configuration, but I probably be able to get the hang of it pretty 
quickly.  Once I get the hang of that, I can start adding options like that 
(well, if I can get damn konqueror to compile).

> 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.
>

You could probably do order changing with drag and drop, but that sounds like 
3.2 material rather than 3.1 material.

> 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)
>

I think I could make it so tabs that are loading have red text like in galeon, 
or I could have a loading animation like in Mozilla, but again you can't have 
two icons on one tab at the same time.

> Keep up the great work :)
>

Thanks! I appreciate the input too :)

> -Troels
>

-- Doug
 
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