Hi Christopher, Phil Also, to save on screen real estate, such a tab toolbar could be automatically hidden when only one document is open. Phil, I find it hard to imagine what vertical tabs would look like but it seems like an interesting concept. However, it might be a hard sell since users are already so familiar with tabbed browsing, it makes sense to remain consistent with them. I'm very interested in your side by side documents suggestion. I can imagine a little "pin" button on a tab which opens a different tab along side the pinned document, while any changes in tab selection would change the opened document in the new space leaving the pinned document open until it is unpinned. I'm going to work on a few mockups for this I think...
Thanks, Patrick On 11 June 2011 12:13, Christopher Stark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- 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
