Interesting solution... it seems a little overly complicated, but I think it makes sense when you really think about it. I'm for this solution. We've been discussing this issue in another thread titled "Chrome Suggestion - Double Tabs". With your proposed solution, I'm assuming links opened from the bookmarks bar, or new tabs created would open as a hub tab. I'm a little confused about the case where the user opens a link in a new tab creating a "spoke" of the current "hub", and then from the "spoke" clicks a link to open another page in a new tab; does this simply become a "spoke" of the original "hub", or does the "spoke" now become a "hub" to the new "spoke"? I'd also suggest spacing the groups of tabs apart just a little bit, to make them more visually distinct. I think this was mentioned on the link you provided, I just felt it was important enough to restate.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Sam Hasler <[email protected]> wrote: > > I posted on the Chromium blog a while back about the Many Tab Overflow > issue: > > > http://blog.chromium.org/2009/01/tabbed-browsing-in-google-chrome.html#c2234841374545598907 > > and I've finally got round to doing a quick mockup of my ideas: > > http://sam.haslers.info/images/chrome/Chrome-UI-Tab-Bar.png > > Note: hub tabs are tabs from which other "spoke" tabs have been opened > using the "open link in new tab" context menu or by ctrl clicking on > links. > (refer the Ordering section in the main blog post linked to above for > a description of how > hub tabs currently work in chrome.) > > Obviously with only 8 tabs it doesn't show much of a space saving, but > with more tabs open it would allow much more space for the tabs in the > current group > of tabs than having all tabs the same size. > > Do you think this would work? Would it be understood without having to > be explained? Is there a better way of separating the groups of tabs? > > I've also posted this to Issue 188: > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=188#c35 > > > -- Rahul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
