Re: [Usability] New Tab Widget

[Andy Owen <andy-gnome-usability ultra-premium com>]

This is a comment that isn't super-related to your actual ideas, but it
is something I've been thinking about with tab widgets:

Would it be better to make the tab widget in two parts, one for the
strip of tabs, and another for the actual contents of the tab? With the
current widget, I don't believe we can actually do a firefox style tab,
because there is a button at the end of the tab strip, which the current
widget doesn't provide a container for. 

(this applies as much to the old widget as it does to yours).

On a more related note, people seem to be fairly protective of vertical
resolution, so it might be a bit of an uphill battle to include this
slider. I realise this is on your list of questions/problems, but I
think it is quite a significant point (with widescreen laptops being the
norm, and netbooks with bad vertical resolution being common)

Andy

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 09:01 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> I've been playing around with a few ideas for a new tab widget recently.
> Brain dump is here: http://live.gnome.org/ScratchPad/NewTabWidget
> 
> Comments and suggestions are most welcome.
> 
> Allan
> 
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