HIG: tabwidgets

[Thomas Zander]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 10:42, Gábor Lehel wrote:
> > IIRC we actually had this turned on by default in konqi when tabs
> > first appeared and it was such a horror-show of people accidentally
> > closing tabs that it was disabled eventually
>
> I see the point, though I must note that having the close button
> /instead/ of the webpage icon, on the left of the tab, doubtless also
> had something to do with this. (I haven't heard any such complaints
> from Opera users, thus far.)

People tend to not complain about them mistakingly mis-clicking. People 
assume they must be stupid.  (sad but true).

Konq has an option to fade the icon on the tab to a close button, so the 
best of both worlds is met.  Even with that, the horror show Aaron 
already mentioned made us turn it off.

I guess KDE users trust the interface to be standard enough to not have to 
think about already-known widgets and what side effects they may have.  
The opera users get to see a non-quite-standard interface and my guess is 
that people accept more weird behavior (or simply walk away and try one 
of the many alternative browsers).
-- 
Thomas Zander
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