On 12/11/12 16:45, Johnathan Nightingale wrote:
Every community has conservative elements. They are helpful; they remind us who we are when we forget. But conservative forces prevent change (by definition!) and we have important aspects of our code that need changing. I don't believe that the discussion around tabs on bottom will result in any significant portion of our user base turning off updates. I do believe that our tab strip code is in desperate need of clean up, and full of edge cases that hurt performance, maintainability, and quality.
I believe you. However, at least reading the bugs, what seems to be missing (as far as I can see) is an analysis of how much the need to preserve the ability to have tabs on top or bottom complicates the tab strip code or makes it harder to fix or refactor. Have I missed this analysis?
We have a toolbar customization UI which allows an arbitrary number of toolbars with toolbar items arranged in any order the user specifies. And I see no plans that we are going to remove this. (Are there some?) Given that we have this level of designed flexibility, is the ability to alter toolbar vertical ordering really such a big complexity increase above that?
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