Re: [Usability] GtkNotebook scrolling

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 12 Mar 2010, at 12:28, Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:

> I want to point to the very interesting link that was posted by Andreas
> Nilsson in gtk-devel list:
> http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/11/usability
> 
> For me, it is a *huge* usability feature to be able to scroll through
> notebook tabs. I use this all the time when using Firefox, Nautilus,
> gedit and other applications with lots of documents opened in tabs. I
> love it.

So as the only person who's really claimed to use this feature so far: why do you use it?  What is your use case for scrolling through tabs?  In most cases, people can see which tab they need to visit, so it is much quicker for them to click that tab directly.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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