Re: [Usability] GtkNotebook scrolling

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Cody,

Op maandag 15-03-2010 om 20:59 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Cody
Russell:

> offscreen while you're adding new ones on the right.  Once you've got
> some offscreen notebook tabs you can mouse-wheel back and forth and it
> scrolls through the notebook tabs but *without changing the selected
> tab*.  That's the key difference between Firefox and gtk's behavior, and
> that is my particular source of annoyance with the current gtk behavior.

I see.

> I'd be interested in implementing something better than what we have.
> Scroll events on a notebook tab didn't really make sense to me
> conceptually before, but the way the Firefox tabs are implemented it
> kind of does.  The big usability flaw with ours (imo, anyway) is that
> scroll events actually switch the page on you.

Well, in my honest opinion, out of the tons of Gtk tab usability flaws
that have been filed in bugzilla during the years, I think this one is
by far the least serious.

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen