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On Sep 25, 2012, at 6:10 AM, Daniel Fore <[email protected]> wrote: > Yea I commented on the bug report, IIRC. > > The biggest argument I heard for tabs on the right side was that the mental > model of the tabbar flow from most used to least used (just like the > toolbar). So when you insert a new tab, you are by-definition placing the > least-used (so far) tab on the left side in front of the most used (longest > open) tabs. > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:50 AM, David Gomes <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sergey, >> >> The other day we were talking about this on IRC and we almost changed >> Daniel's mind I think. I'm not 100% sure of what he thinks now, but the >> general opinion is to have tabs opening on the right on every single >> application for consistency with 3rd party apps, because we read from left >> to right and because adding tabs on the beginning makes our brain reorganize >> the tab system (we have to +1 the position of every single tab, since it >> gets changed). >> >> Those were some of the arguments presented. >> >> David "Munchor" Gomes >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've just remembered - Ctrl+T adds tabs on the right of the current one, not >> on the left. This seems inconsistent to me. Is it a Granite bug or it should >> be fixed in the apps? >> >> -- >> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >> OS architect @ elementary >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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