I remember seeing someone else suggesting that you show the active tab opened "full", and any tabs you hover over, seemed like an interesting idea. But the only problem is deciding what "full" is.
On Feb 1, 11:50 am, Craiv <[email protected]> wrote: > What about a "cover flow"-like solution? > > As you hover the mouse on a (minimized) tab, it would expand to show > the full title. Something like: > > /'\/'\/'\/'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\ > > ... and > > /'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'\/'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''\/'\/'\ > > In this way you can easily shuffle through your tabs without *any > additional UI complication* > > On Feb 1, 1:27 am, Rahul Pawa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > tab thumbnail previews were discussed on a different thread. > > The basic consensus there was that thumbnail previews would hinder usability > > by covering up parts of the current tab. And such thumbnail previews would > > be useless because it would still be generally faster to click the tab to > > open it rather than wait an extra 2-3 seconds for the preview to appear. > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Hunnter2k3 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why not have a drop-down menu at the end? > > > Drop-down menus are always useful > > > If i could, i would condense all the tabs into one icon on the taskbar > > > to free up even more space. > > > > I guess the only real way would to be to have options for users > > > tastes. > > > > 1) Scrolling with arrows > > > 2) Mutliple Rows > > > 3) Drop-down at end > > > > As a possible better solution, tab preview on hover. > > > Extend the tooltip to full on preview. > > > It might add a tiny hint of slowness and larger memory footprint, but > > > it would be much more useful for identifying a tab you want to access > > > when you can't read the title and the tooltip(s) is/are too > > > ambiguous / similar. (such as browsing a lot of pictures at once, > > > usually sites only tend to have the site name as the title) > > > While tab order tends to be much easier to remember, most people > > > really don't remember... > > > > I guess it really depends if you want to put the effort into adding > > > this, or adding the ability for the browser interface to be remodelled > > > to create this. > > > And to be honest, i'd prefer the latter, because interface > > > modification support is a much better use of time when most people > > > probably don't care much for a feature that could be extended using a > > > plugin. > > > -- > > Rahul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
