Re: [Usability] New Tab Widget

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

> 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)

Yes, I was aware that vertical screen space was a disadvantage of the
slider aspect of the design (the mixed tab widths approach exists
independently of the slider, I hasten to add). I was unsure about how
significant a disadvantage it was, though. In particular, I hadn't
considered the widescreen/netbook issue. I can see how that could be a
problem.

The same kind of functionality that you get with the slider could be
accommodated by something that wouldn't take up as much vertical space.
Check out the page again [1]. I just threw up a very rough mockup of an
alternative.

Allan

[1] http://live.gnome.org/ScratchPad/NewTabWidget