Hi, my suggestion would be to have the tabs horizontally but in a toolbar that can be activated or deactivated. If it is deactivated then other or new documents appear in new windows, if it is activated in tabs.
Christopher Am 11.06.2011 06:53, schrieb Cyril Arnaud: > I'm personally not so sure about the vertical tabs. > If the tabs are similar to the one you can use on chromium for instance, you > save more screen realestate than with a vertical bar. > Using tab should be very discreet since it's not necessary for your activity > in one doc, but could increase your efficiency when you work on several > documents at the same time. > > -- Cyril Arnaud > On Jun 11, 2011 12:13 AM, "planas" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Phil and Patrick >> >> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:54 +1200, Phil Jackson wrote: >> >>> Hi Patrick >>> >>> This could work also if there was an option for vertical tabs to the >>> left. Certainly it is important for Writer to maximise vertical space >>> for document display and some users (including me) would like to see >>> this idea as an option on the left or right. >>> >>> It could be part of another toolbar with a maximum list of 3-5 items >>> that could be scrollable, on top of a list of other tools. >>> >>> I think that having a single click of keyboard command that switches >>> between documents is essential - I'm sure I am not in the minority in >>> sometimes wanting to be able to switch quickly between two different >>> documents either for comparison purposes or to copy and paste between > them. >>> It also therefore raises an interesting new idea which might be beyond >>> the scope of this suite - have a mode where you can display two >>> different documents side-by-side, each with its own vertical scroll >>> bars, displayed in slightly shrunk fonts with the ability to copy and >>> paste directly between the two. Obviously you can change the screen size >>> of two different sessions of Write and achieve the same but this takes a >>> little time and you still get unnecessary duplication of menus. On some >>> wide screens this would be very useful occasionally and again something >>> that would give it another point of difference. >>> >>> This idea could be used for Calc. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Phil Jackson >>> >>> On 6/11/2011 8:55 AM, Patrick Scott wrote: >>>> Hi all. >>>> >>>> What do people think about tabbed documents a la Lotus Symphony. I > wouldn't >>>> have much use for it myself but I keep seeing the suggestion pop up in > the >>>> comments on forums and articles etc so it's seems like it might be an >>>> important feature for some [and another means of differentiating > ourselves >>>> from OO and MS Office]. I've looked a few pages back through the > archives >>>> and couldn't see any mention of it and since I've only been on this > list for >>>> a couple of days I thought I'd just ask if it was on the radar for >>>> LibreOffice. >>>> >>>> Tabbed Documents in Lotus Symphony: >>>> > http://static.howtoforge.com/images/IBM_Lotus_Symphony_On_Ubuntu704/pic8.jpg >>>> Thanks, >>>> Patrick >>>> >>> >> The side by side view would be very useful in Writer and Calc. Also, >> Phil I think you correct about the placement on the side. >> >> -- >> Jay Lozier >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
