Re: [Usability] GtkNotebook scrolling

[Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo gmail com>]

I'm not sure if/when this post will reach the list, as 
I'm not subscribed, but I wanted to add my 2c to the discussion.

First of all: Firefox and tabs.
Personally, I treat TabMix Plus as an essential extension.
Among other things, it allows tab labels to be put
in multiple rows, that can be scrolled (but do not switch on scroll).
It also handles "on closing an active tab, switch to the previously
active tab" - that's useful only if there's NO switch on scroll.

Also, I once tried looking briefly on midori sources.
It uses GtkNotebook for tabs and suffers from its limitations
- both switch on scroll and that there's only one row of tabs.
After Firefox+TabMix Plus, it's quite inconvenient and there's no
good way to turn off switch on scroll and still be able to
scroll through all of the tabs (I tend to get to 30+ tabs fairly quickly,
my usual session is far over 100 tabs - OK, I use the session
as a quick history, everybody has its own browsing style ).

Switch on scroll is also inconvenient in preferences dialogs,
if notebook page contains a scrolled window - it's quite
hard to tell how much scrolling gets you to the end of the page
and if you go over that, you'll get switched to the next page,
which is rarely what you'd want.