Well full would be the same size as one opened tab. PS. that is the best idea so far, and yeah I think lan suggested that, but the illustration makes more sense when the selected tab is bigger.
On Feb 1, 9:22 am, Hunnter2k3 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
