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> While I totally agree that this solution has its problems, it also think
> that one window with about 3-5 Tabs would be less space expensive than
> 3-5 windows. And with a tabbed ui done right, i.e. showing in the tabs
> that a new message has arived this could be done to save space. But this
> has its limits, because it would only be helpful for a finite number of
> tabs.
Laffer's Curve anyone? (sorry, AP/IB Economics exams coming up soon)
>> Hmmm. An "Off-Edge-Dockable" window that would slide back out
>> (on-screen)
>> when there was new information posted to it. Interesting. Would need
>> somebody to donate a machine with multiple displays so we could properly
>> test this, though.
>
> Perhaps you don�t need a two monitor machine to do this: If you only
> "almost" slide out the window, so its still possible to somehow "grab" it,
> it would always be possible to deal with them on a single monitor
> machine. Plus you always had the possibility to know what was going on
> (you could still see all the windows, but you would know there are no new
> messages, because they are mostly off screen and don't consume too much
> space.)
If I'm understanding Colter right though it's more of "we need two
monitors to know what's going on off the edge of the one screen". Once it'
s determined to be sound then the need for two monitors isn't there (eg,
it's only for development, testing, and debugging :) )
Matthew Stuckwisch
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