Is "pinned" a widely used GUI concept? It brings to mind something that
is movable but currently fixed at a certain position, i.e. it conveys
two concepts, neither of which seems to exactly fit the scenario given
by David. It seems "permanent" (or "persistent") would be a better word.
Pete
James Teh wrote:
> On 19/11/2010 5:23 AM, David Bolter wrote:
>
>> In Firefox 4 betas you can pin browser tabs. This means that the tab
>> will become a permanent tab that is visually distinct and appears
>> together with other pinned tabs to the left of the regular tabs.
>>
> It's worth noting that this is not an application specific concept. It
> appears elsewhere (e.g. Windows 7 taskbar and Start menu) and will
> probably continue to appear in new applications as well.
>
>
>> So, create an IA2_STATE_PINNED or expose an object attribute?
>>
> My vote is for the state. This is a boolean state, so a state makes
> sense. In addition, having it as an object attribute when it could be a
> state suggests that it is an application specific hack, and is this
> case, it probably shouldn't be implemented as a boolean value at all.
>
> The practical problem with exposing it as a state is that we need a
> revision to the IA2 IDL, which may take time that Firefox 4 doesn't have.
>
> Jamie
>
>
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