Re: [Gimp-developer] RFE: single window mode: always show tab

[Lumens Solutions <eric lumenssolutions com>]

Actually, the difference is between individual countries in Europe; 
German and French books are upside-down in my library, English and Dutch 
books are right side up along with American books ;-)

Eric

On 01/04/2012 08:08 PM, Jeff Trefftzs wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 16:20 -0800, Patrick Horgan wrote:
> > On 01/04/2012 05:23 AM, Przemyslaw Golab wrote:
> > > I think the same as Martin.
> > >
> > > 99% of time I work on one document.
> > > For me those few pixels are more useful than non-flickering window,
> > > especially because current tabs are big :)
> > +1  This is something I've been mulling over in general for a long
> > time.  Monitors used to be near square, but now they are all MUCH wider
> > than they are high.  Somehow we need to use less valuable vertical space
> > and more horizontal space for UI elements.  The problem comes in when
> > you have text involved.  While you COULD have tabs down the side with
> > the text rotated appropriately, people wouldn't like it.  They like to
> > read normally.  Hmmmm.
> Just to make life more interesting, the rotated direction differs
> depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on.  USA likes text to
> read from top to bottom, Europe likes text to read from bottom to top.
> Just look at the spines of books in your library.