Re: [Epiphany] Tabs changes

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 20:48 +0200, Christian Persch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:05, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > My feeling is that the only intuitive and efficient implementation is drag and drop.
> > We already allow to drag stuff (bookmarks or other tabs) to the tabs bar.
> > The problem is that when it's full you can drag only on existing tabs, which open
> > the bookmark in the target tab, not in a new one. I think it could make sense
> > to change this behavior and ever open in a new tab when dragging on the tabs bar.
> 
> Hm, i use drag-to-existing-tab to have the url load there quite often,
> too; it's very useful on web-based bulletin boards -- you open the main
> list of forae in one tab, have the current forum in the next, and load
> threads one after one in the third by dragging the link to the tab
> label. That way you don't have to go back and forth reloding the thread
> list, which will have changed, thus ensuring you miss the interesting
> ones.
> 
> For the problem of a full tab bar, we could tweak the tab label sizing
> algorithm to ever leave a bit of empty place, or have some other area to
> drop urls to open in new tabs.

Hm yeah something like this could work ... But it should prolly be a
desktop wide thing.

>  Galeon 1.x had the ability to do this
> when you dropped them on the "New" toolbar button; but I admit that's
> not very discoverable too -- i only knew about it when i read the code
> when trying to implement the drag-to-tab for epiphany :)

This add an extra level of indirection that doesnt help finding it, also
it doesnt allow to choose the position.

> > Problems I see here:
> > - we leave out would the case when there is only one tab opened (tabs bar not
> > visible).
> > - people does not use drag and drop much, it's likely that most users would not
> > find this functionality (Though I tend to blame it on the generally poor DND support
> > in gnome apps)
> [Isn't a non-dnd way for doing everything required for a11y resons?]

Well I'm not exactly sure in this case ... There is a way to obtain the
same with just keys (ctrl+t, open from bookmarks menu). It's not quite
the same thing though ...

Marco