Re: Some suggestions on tab behaviour

["Diego Escalante" <diego aureal com pe>]

On 12/25/06, Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Spidernik,
>
> 2006/12/25, spidernik84 <spidernik84 virgilio it>:
>
> > I've noticed that double clicking on tab bar does not open a new tab. I
> > think that this could be a useful feature, especially for users coming
> > from Firefox like me.
>
> Sorry but this is a 'feature' that Epiphany doesn't have by design.
> UI elements that are reactive to mouse clicks without being clearly
> marked as such, cause unexpected behaviour. You can still use the New
> Tab toolbar button or press Ctrl+T instead.
IE7 has a cool UI for that, there's always a "tab" of 10 pixels width
at the right of your open tab, if you click this "fake tab" you will
get a new tab.

> > Another small glitch: while opening a new tab the cursor should be
> > placed in url bar, so the user would be able to type the desired address
> > immediately without taking his hand off the keyboard and moving the
> > pointer over the textbar.
>
> This is already the case when you have set a blank homepage. When you
> have a non-blank homepage, focus is given to that page on purpose.
> (There has been a lot of discussion about this already.)
>
> Try typing an address in the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to get
> the desired effect.
>
> > Last thing: do you plan to implement an option like "show tab bar even
> > when one tab only is present"?
>
> There already is a gconf key for that:
> /apps/epiphany/general/always_show_tabs_bar.
>
> > Keep up the good work, epiphany has become my default browser after many
> > happy years with the fox, and deserves to be the best ;)
>
> Thanks for using Epiphany! :-)
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Reinout van Schouwen
> http://vanschouwen.info/
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