Re: [Fwd: Tab browsing]

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

I find tabbed windows in epiphany convenient because I often have 10-20
web pages open at a time and tabs allow me to group like web pages
together.  They also appear to be less resource intensive and faster to
switch between (in the sense that the tabs are near the back and forward
button).

However, I suspect that tabs are more difficult for the average user to
use.  Non technical users of my computer often close all of my web pages
thinking that they've closed the single page they opened.  Twice when
I've tried to explain what they've done they say that they understand
and point to the panel at the bottom of the screen...

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:09, David Christian Berg wrote:
> 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