Re: [Usability] New Tab Widget

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:37 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Seems to me the "Gnome way" would be to get rid of the slider and
> user control altogether and decide on reasonable (fixed) values.

I agree that eliminating user control would be a great thing. I just
don't know how to get there without creating a huge mess along the
way. :)

What are the 'reasonable (fixed) values' you're referring to? Do you
mean the widths of the tabs? If you do, wouldn't having fixed tab widths
lead to tabs flowing off-screen (one of the key things I'm trying to
avoid)?

Allan