[Fwd: Tab browsing]

[David Christian Berg <david berg gmx net>]

I filed a bug concerning Tab browsing. I was correctly filed as a
doublicat of an older bug... one posted in 2001.
In 2002 the feature request was closed as "wontfix".
Since I really love tab browsing in galeon, I've never quite understood
why nautilus doesn't allow tab browsing.


On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 12:46, Christian Rose wrote:

> If you want people to think about it again, you should probably bring it
> up again on an appropriate list, such as usability gnome org and/or
> nautilus-list gnome org 

Well, here we go!

> My guess is that a tabbed mode in nautilus has not been implemented in
> part because of very limited developer resources (patches are always
> welcome) but also for a large part precisely because of a usability
> concerns. MDI interfaces, such as tabs are used as in Galeon, have all
> kinds of usability impacts. That's also why the GNOME web browser
> Epiphany doesn't use tabs by default.

Hmm, if tabs negatively affects usability (I think it does the
opposite), it could just be done the way epiphany seems do be doing it.
Have the option for tab browsing (and I don't care about the default in
that case) ;)
If it's a lack of developers that prevent this step... perhaps I can
convince someone I know, but I myself am not familiar with programming
at all -- sorry.

Hope this topic is over and done.

David