-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I remember having raised the issue abt the tabs-theme looking not very polished. IIRC, gary had replied (/me can't find the exact email, and don't remember what the reply contained :/ )
Another point I remember 'not-implementing' was adding the option 'open in a new tab' to the right-click palette. On 08/17/2011 05:42 PM, Kevin Gordon wrote: > Folks: > > In safari 5.1 you can hit ctrl-t to open a new tab. Or to the right of the > address bar, there is a little drop-down from a page with a > corner-turned-down icon t invoke that. The new tab defaults to the 'top' > sites frame, but the URL is empty and ready to be filled in. Not > recommending this: the chrome, IE, and firefox methods all seem more > intuitive to me, just saying that it can be done. > > KG > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de>wrote: > >> On 08/17/2011 01:51 PM, Gary Martin wrote: >> >>> Hi Simon, >>> >>> On 17 Aug 2011, at 10:20, Simon Schampijer<si...@schampijer.de**> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> in the current version of Browse tabs are enabled by default. The tabs in >>>> Browse has been an unfinished Feature which mainly was meant to fix the >>>> issue of a web page opening a new window (this was then opened in a new tab >>>> automatically). >>>> >>>> The latest Browse does add the functionality to let the user add tabs, >>>> the '+' button in the toolbar [browse-toolbar]. Having several tabs open >>>> looks like [browse-tabs]. A few things to say here: the close icon is not >>>> sugarized. The coloring of the tabs is not in a Sugar style and the text >>>> does not elipsize - hence the tabs can have different sizes (see Firefox >>>> for >>>> an example here). >>>> >>>> I would propose as well to do something similar as Firefox in the latest >>>> version: placing the 'add tab' button next to the latest tab >>>> [firefox-tabs]. >>>> This has the nice side effect of not introducing yet another icon in the >>>> toolbar. >>>> >>> >>> Unless we show the tab bar at all times (i.e. when you only have one >>> window open), how would a second tab ever be added (other than via a web >>> page opening a new window)? >>> >> >> Firefox does show one tab all the time. It is true that this kills a bit of >> space but I think I could live with that. >> >> I checked in Safari: here you can only open links in a new tab (apple-key >> when you click on the link as a shortcut). You can not open a new empty tab >> and then type in the URL. That would be another option. We could add the >> 'open in new tab' to the link palette and reserve as well a short-cut if >> desired. Is less discoverable though (I had to look up the docs to find it >> in Safari). >> >> A completely non-tab approach do have smart phone UIs like the one for the >> Galaxy S2. You can open here a new window. That would be similar than >> opening a new Browse instance which was the original idea of dealing with >> that use case. So navigating between the browser windows is more natural on >> those UIs. >> >> I would go with the first approach of showing a tab all time from the above >> options. >> >> Regards, >>> --Gary >>> >>> P.S. Perhaps we could land the sugarized scroll bar at the same time, if I >>> remember we just didn't have a clean way to apply it the Mozilla theme. >>> Pretty sure I spotted the tab visual theme in the same place. >>> >> >> Ahh, I remember that vaguely. If you know where it goes and can provide a >> patch or something more crude for showing off, off we go! :) >> >> Regards, >> Simon >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.**org <Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/**listinfo/sugar-devel<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel - -- Anish Mangal Dextrose Project Manager -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOVmNCAAoJEBoxUdDHDZVp/FMH/00jsWyQOgHGEb0kWx7C3Hwk tKg7DFZ3dwJxijf/i7db/AFtwCm0nquxxB9RIkt7Y+a4a5WuUa/ZRIkET599Q3C0 u2AcH1pn1RZeL9/jt0EU+fOkwqNKIA9F41uKNfmEA5qS9joyNXUleTMayVyin5R2 erQ62tIuOV3f0q6QgyN0fAZD/BX/3tyLFK0FXPxurLKBUqkc2h19AkbZs7FEnW6j v+mGZcP7YJyol9i1AAcnjTzDS1tacOdAOMUG5UJI9QlVKBKamzDTRwjYxSwEAv0d rtHwf9CtdvIKrLw2m40yfZCo51/8aGg5jS6n/jhh/YJj07dtvuD3OTFo7QfXmtw= =tdu0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel