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Martin H�cker wrote:
>> > - Use some sort of tabbed ui to manage multiple conversations inside
>>> one window.
>>
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>> Ewww. I seriously believe this is a bad idea.
Tabbed windows can be a good thing when you are trying to manage a lot
of conversations. I can't use ircle as my IRC client, for example,
because I simply get lost in 12 windows, plus windows for pl2 and users
and faces and dcc and more and more and more. I actaully use mirc via
VNC instead because I can manage tabbed windows much easier.
> 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.
The tabs would HAVE to show status of the chat so that a simple glance
will tell you if there is something new in the non-front most tab. As
for the interface, make it totally optional. If you move a window over
another window in a specific way, then the windows are merged into a
single tabbed window.
My idea would be to have a tab icon on the window that you can drag
another window onto. Or if you click the icon it simply generates a new
tab.
Tabbed view is not a perfect interface, but it is one of the things
getting me to use Mozilla over IE.
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