What about ctrl+t ? On Sep 25, 2012, at 8:29 AM, ttosttos Sa <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess if my previous argument holds water, a click on the + should actually > add a tab on the left (contrary to my previous statement). A double-click on > the right (empty space) should add a tab on the right. The logic would be: > action on the tabbar happens closest to its trigger. I think it's safe to > assume that user attention is close to the pointer. For an add started from > outside the tabbar (e.g. from an App menu), I'd still favor the tab to appear > on the empty space, instead of the shift which is more visually distracting. > > --ttosttos > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:16 PM, ttosttos Sa <[email protected]> wrote: > Oopss... watch out for that argument. It doesn't hold true for millions > (should probably say billions) of people around the world :-) I find the > shifting of all tabs a bit unintuitive. I personally find more natural that > new tabs fill the empty space instead of shifting all the existing tabs. In > addition, double click on the empty tabbar space currently has the odd result > of adding a tab far away from where the double click took place (which should > be where the user attention is). > > > --ttosttos > ps. On a somewhat related note, I think the widget could benefit from some > visual work. > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Voldyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Another argument can be that most of the languages we use are written from > left to right so our mental model dictates that the new things should be on > the right and the left side remains unchanged. > example. > we write > D > Da > Dan > -not > n > an > Dan > > 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 > > -- > 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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