window tabbing (especially kdevelop)

[Nicolas Ternisien]

Something quite simple will be to implement a system like the GMail
one in an horizontal layout.

A screenshot is available here :

http://annivernet.free.fr/stuff/divers/kdetabbar-gmail.png

Only some tabs becomes available if the user clicks on it. The other
one are "minimized" like GMail do.

When the mouse hovers the tabbar, each title is displayed (in a
tooltip for example), and when the user find the tab he wants, then,
the tab bar becomes maximized for the desired tab, and it's two next
and previous neighbors. A right click, or something like that will
able to re-minimized the opened tab bar.

Here is my idea...


2005/8/19, Max Lemieux <max.lemieux at gmail.com>:
> I completely agree with Kevin's comment about the suckiness of
> tablines swapping places. This occurred to me some hours after my
> post, and I figured someone would point it out :) . Luke's suggestions
> are good - simply don't swap tabline positions, or implement a new and
> useful magnification feature. Since this is KDE, there could of course
> be an option to choose which method you prefer :)
> 
> -Max
> 
> > >
> > > I read somewhere that multiline tabs are considered one of the worst GUIs
> > > ever usability wise, because they tend to change ordering of tab lines when
> > > a tab of a line from behind gets activated, thus making it impossible to
> > > quickly switch back to the previous one because you have to go and look for
> > > it first.
> >
> > Can't that easily be solved by simply not reordering the tab lines? I don't
> > see a problem with the selected tab being somewhere other than at the bottom,
> > but maybe that's just me...
> >
> > Anyway, this would probably need a whole new API and such, but how about
> > making overflowed tabzones scale horizontally to fit the full tabbar in the
> > available space. Then, scale horizontal mouse movement when it is over the
> > tabbar (so an overflowed tabbar would result in the mouse moving slower
> > across) and magnify the part the mouse is over, somewhat like OSX's
> > application bar or such.
> > --
> > Luke-Jr
> > Developer, Utopios
> > http://utopios.org/
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