Tabs and the new auto-hidden close =?iso-8859-1?q?button

[Dawit A.]

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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:44:28 -0400
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On Saturday 31 May 2003 05:28, Yves Glodt wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2003 11:07, Dawit A. wrote:
> > I have big problems with the way this new "dynamic" close button is
> > implemented in konqueror. It causes one to inadvertently close the
> > tab when what (s)he wanted to do was simply bring that tab to the
> > top. Can whomever implemented this please explain why the close
> > button is hidden until the mouse hovers over the little favicon ? To
>
> Wouldn't it be better if this close button would appear when you hover
> anywhere over the tab, and not just over the favicon??

I do not think that changes anything. Even adding a delay timer does not help 
IMHO. Either these buttons are visible all the time or there is only one 
button to close the tabs like in Mozilla. Personally I do not see the need 
for such this button at all. It does nothing but clutter space. We can 
already close tabs multiple ways: right click on the tab and choose close or 
use the close tab button which has now been moved to the main toolbar. 
Anyways, in the least this should be configurable as it is in Mozilla.

> I guess people mostly activate tabs by clicking somewhere in the middle
> of the tab. This way an accidental close would not be so likely to
> happen.

That is a very big and IMHO wrong assumption.  If you have many tabs open and
are moving your mouse pointer from left to right, as soon as the mouse pointer 
hits the little icon in the next tab the close button is displayed. In the 
split second it takes for that button to appear, a user could have already 
clicked on the mouse.

Regards,
Dawit A.