Konqueror tabbed browsing usability

[Andras Mantia]

Hi,

 This is more a bug report and usability enhanhement request than wishlist. 
Some of the issues were already brought up, but it's good to remember. In 
case you think it's better I will fill a bug report.
 1. When you wish to open let's say 2 web pages in two separate tabs, Konqui 
behaves a little strange. Launch Konquit, open a web page (let's say 
www.kde.org), open a new tab (the location bar is now empty) and try to type 
another address here (www.google.com). Now, if the first page comes in while 
you type the address in the second tab, the location combo suddenly contains 
the old address (www.kde.org) and of course as you type the rest of the 
second address the  location will contain some garbage. It is also annoying 
that the tabs does not change in this case, so the location reflects the 
first tab, while you see the second (empty) tab. It also happened for me that 
in this case I've corrected the location and the www.google.com was opened 
again in the first tab, even when the second was visible.  This seems to be a 
real bug, but one may not notice until you have a slower link, or the first 
requested page is somewhat longer (so it is not opened instantly, only while 
you are typing the address for the second one).

2. When you use the "Open in background tab" menu for several links, it's 
annoying that you don't get feedback that a new tab was opened as soon as you 
click. This can result in situation that you think it has not started to load 
(and you click again), or in case you open let's say 10+ links, and you don't 
remember exactly how much, after you hang up the connection, you see no 
information about the pages that were not opened. This may result in the 
situation that you have requested 10 new tabs and got only 5 opened pages, 
and no info or error messages at all for the rest of 5. This can easily make 
angry the people who would benefit the most of the "open in background tab" 
feature: those who pay for online time and the open the links quickly and 
read those pages after they close the connection. The solution and 
recommendation would be to open the new tab instantly as it was requested and 
give an error message if the connection went down while the page was loaded. 
Even without error messages the usability would been greatly improved by 
opening the new tab instantly, so the user sees which one has not been 
loaded.

3. If you have a lot of opened tabs, using the arrows to scroll the tabbar is 
not the best method. An icon at the end of the tabbar which bring up the not 
visible (or all) opened tabs in a menu would improve the usability. A 
shortcut to get a list of opened tab in a dialog would be also welcome (see 
Alt-0 shortuct ins Quanta). There is also another annoying behaviour in the 
tabbar, as if you have 4 not visible tabs, and you scroll to the end and 
later select the 3rd from the end, that it becomes the last one and you have 
again 2 not visible tabs. Better would be if the currently selected remains 
where it was. I know, this is a bug also in Quanta, and it comes from QT's 
behaciour, I think. But maybe someone can fix it. ;-)

What do you think?
Sorry for being so long.

Andras