RFC: Only place one "add tab" item in the Context View toolbar

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen nhnfreespirit at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 22:32:53 CEST 2009


> I don't like it. Thoughts:
> 1) Adding tabs was one of the major reasons that we left the 1.x context
> browser in the dust. We don't like tabs. Yes, what we have now is tab-like.
> But they're also *not* tabs like normal window tabs, as each apply doesn't
> exclusively take up the whole CV.
> 2) With real tabs like that, there isn't room for multiple smaller applets
> in the CV. Tabs imply that they are exclusive windows. This completely
> breaks the concept of the context view for me.
> Plus, I think it just looks worse. I'd rather go for making the applet
> toolbar more usable, more unique, make adding the applet icons like we
> talked about, rather than turning it into a tabbar which have been trying to
> get away from in the first place.
> cheers,
> leo

^ What he said!

- Nikolaj


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