Re: [Usability] Tabs

[Daniel Borgmann <daniel borgmann gmail com>]

On 23 Jun 2005 13:28:00 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson <lars homer se> wrote:
> OK, here are my thoughts:
> 
> I find an X for each tab most confusing. When I tried out Epiphany I
> happened to close the wrong tab several times.

I'm pretty sure this has more to do with using habits. After using
Epiphany for a long time, I also kept closing the wrong tabs when I
tried to use Firefox. I often think intuitively that the close button
will close the right-most tab, which leads to a bad surprise.

> With one X, acting on the
> current tab displayed, you have a better control on what is going on. If
> you click the X, you know exactly what tab will be removed, the one you
> are looking at.

I feel the opposite, the object to be removed is the tab, and I feel a
lot more confident clicking on the close button if it's located on the
actual object. This seems logical to me, but of course I could also be
biased by my using habits.

However, I don't think that tabs should overflow (unless someone comes
up with a very clever handling of overflowed tabs). This can be
somewhat frustrating in Epiphany, although I try to limit the amount
of my tabs.

Daniel