On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:37 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > Alexandre Mazari wrote: > > = Let the user switch to a specific epiphany's opened site using g-s > > facilities = > > I am using the term site here, instead of tab, because it is not really > > clear we should to keep the tabs management in ephy IMHO. > > Tabs and notebooks are just a way to have application-local window > > management, mostly duplicating wms/shells facilities, compensating for > > their missing features (windows grouping for instance). > > Re-giving that responsibility to the shell seems like a natural thing to > > do, reducing the number of different ways to switch to a specific > > site/app/context. > > It seems the design team shares this opinion, as seen in > > http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/raw/master/mockups/epiphany/epiphany2.png > > . > > That particular design was my effort. I wouldn't say it was the view of > the 'team' ;) (though one or two people did seem to like it). The way I > left things, I was hoping for a prototype to do some user testing with. > (The design needs a lot more work, too.) That said, I'm of the opinion > that tabs don't make a huge amount of sense in the context of the shell.
If this is the same as http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/FeatureDesign/DesignConcept then I think it's a path that deserves exploration. Tab management needs to be better than it is, and it shouldn't be something that requires user intervention (like Firefox 4's Panorama). It should just work. > > This idea being very controversial, going against years of tabbing > > browsers usage, displaying ephy tabs contents in alt-tab switcher and/or > > overview might be an intermediate solution. > > Here is a quick and dirty mockup: > > http://people.igalia.com/amazari/ephy-tabs-in-switcher.webm > > I think one of the real shell designers should comment on this. It makes > sense in one way, but it also breaks the convention that each of those > thumbnails is a window. I'm not a shell designer but for what it's worth, Windows 7 does something like this with IE and it's awful. It's impossible to distinguish between different windows and different tabs and as soon as you get a few sites open (7 or more in my case) the thumbnails start to all look the same. A possible solution for the thumbnails is to crop and scale a portion of the window contents (probably the top left quadrant) so a snippet of the sites content is more easily recognisable--the same way you'd crop and scale a photo to just a headshot if you needed a postage-stamp size representation for Gravatar for example. But that doesn't address the window/site separation and nesting a third level of alt + tab seems messy to me. > > What do you think ? > > That this is awesome. Integrating the shell and the browser could be > amazing. Agreed. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
