KDE/kdevplatform/shell

[Vladimir Prus]

On Thursday 06 November 2008 23:37:41 David Nolden wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2008 21:25:20 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > Whats the problem with the documents list or the first 8 files in
> > quickopen? I understand that you want to keep an overview of what you're
> > working on right now, but 8 tabs already fail to work for me on my laptop.
> > I already have 2 of them not visible, even more if the filenames are a bit
> > longer.
> 
> The problem is that I like having that list permanently visible for overview, 
> and don't want it to waste tons of space like the document-view. The problem 
> is that we currently can only show toolview per side, and for that reason I 
> wouldn't consider using the document-view on my 1600x1200 screen. It's simply 
> too much wasted space for such a small feature. Only my screen, the tabs 
> comfortably hold 8 files, and that still feels good.

That's why I'm not sure tabs should completely go. The problem with tabs is that scale
horribly, and don't show project structure. But we can implement a tab bar that
never overflows -- if there's screen space for 5 documents, it shows 5 documents.
This will allow the overview you want.

- Volodya