They always felt pretty different to me. In one case, I'm undoing something I did, and I expect the state to be restored to how it was. In the other, I'm initiating a new action, and I expect the behavior to be the same as for bookmarks.
- Pam On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Mike Pinkerton <[email protected]>wrote: > As a Chrome developer, I understand the difference, but "undo closed > tab" is just the most recent tab, where we have the 5 most recently > closed tabs in the history menu. From a user perspective, why should > one be different than the other? Why do I only get a new tab when I'm > undoing the last tab, and not 2 or 3 tabs ago? Just because in code > they're different, and that seems wrong. > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Pam Greene<[email protected]> wrote: > > You want undo-close-tab for that use case, not history. The where-to-open > > behavior of undo-close-tab is completely different. Agreed that there's > some > > overlap in usage, though. > > - Pam > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Mike Pinkerton <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> The few times I've needed to use the history menu (gak, i just closed > >> something by accident, let me get it back), re-using the current tab > >> is exactly what i don't want, as it clobbers something totally > >> unrelated that I had open. That's what prompted this discussion. > >> > >> I agree that it should behave like bookmarks in theory, since it's > >> effectively the same presentation, but it seems to get in the way of > >> my workflow when I try to actually use it. > >> > >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Scott Violet<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > I would suggest you create something like browser/views/event_utils on > >> > the Mac (and Linux) side. Any place you're opening a URL from a user > >> > gesture you map the event to a WindowOpenDisposition. This way the UI > >> > is consistent with regards to what user gestures do. > >> > > >> > As to this particular case, I believe the default should be current > tab. > >> > > >> > -Scott > >> > > >> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Brett Wilson<[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Avi Drissman<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >>> Brett— > >> >>> > >> >>> Are we talking about the history page, or history items? The history > >> >>> page > >> >>> gets its own tab, sure. But when someone picks an item from the > >> >>> history > >> >>> menu, where does it go? I think current foreground tab is right, > with > >> >>> command for background tabs. > >> >> > >> >> Yes, I was confused. I think clobbering is OK in that case. My new & > >> >> improved opinion is it should act like the drop-down on the > >> >> back/forward menus. > >> >> > >> >> Brett > >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Mike Pinkerton > >> Mac Weenie > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Mike Pinkerton > Mac Weenie > [email protected] > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
