Re: Epiphany 1.3.2

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti oltrelinux com>]

>So I really can't see any clear problem caused by tab-grouping.
>However I see some usability issues opened by its remotion:
> - if there are many (where many=7 on my 1024x768 screen) tabs open, new
>tabs are opened "out of the screen", so the user doesn't get any
>feedback of them getting created and loaded.
> - the user keeps scrolling back & forth the tab list to get to his new
>tabs; this can be _very_ annoying if you have many (>7) tabs, because
>the arrows to scroll the list are small and difficult to hit.
> - related tabs are spread around the tab list.

That's probably a more general issue with tab sizing. I think ideally epiphany sizing should be like mozilla/firefox (tabs autoadapting instead of going out of screen). Unfortunately that doesnt appear to be possible without gtk changes, so it will have to wait a bit ...

Marco