> I think you should make a distinction between tab switching and tab > organization. Tab switching will be done a lot, whereas most users > will probably never mess with reorganizing their tabs Yep, agree.
> and those that > do will probably spend some time getting an organization they like, > then stop messing with it. I think it makes sense to separate the two > UIs. > > I think a drop down menu (or more realistically a pop-up menu) is the > simplest way to handle too many tabs. This menu can also have some > auxiliary functions, such as "organize tabs" which will bring up the > separate tab organization UI (analogous to Firefox's bookmark menu and > the "Organize bookmarks" menu item). The first step could be to make the menu items draggable and organize order of tabs by drag-and-drop (just like in bookmarks folder on the bookmark toolbar) > It could also contain some > predefined tab-sets such as "HTML+CSS tabs", "JavaScript tabs", "Net > tabs", etc. If the user creates custom tab sets, they'd show up in > the menu as well. > > So you might get a menu like: > > Console > HTML > CSS > Script > DOM > Net > Firecookie > FirePHP > YSlow > Firediff > ---------- > Organize tabs... > --------- > Basic tabs > HTML & CSS tabs > JavaScript tabs > Net tabs > My custom tabs 1 > My custom tabs 2 I like this idea and I think this could be a second step if users make a request for it. > I would put all the installed extensions in the menu, not just the > tabs that have overflowed the tab bar. This way the menu contents > don't change every time you resize the browser window. Yes > The switcher menu should be easy to implement since it's pretty much a > conventional menu. The "Organize tabs" UI is another thing > altogether. However, having a dedicated UI for it should simplify > implementation. > > There should probably be some sort of visual affordance for the menu, > but I'm not sure what it should be. I can't visualize an icon that > means "switch tabs", certainly not one that will fit in 16x16 icon. > You could put a count of installed tabs on the tab bar before the > first tab, and connect the menu to that. But that's the kind of UI > that UI designers make fun of programmers for. An icon would be great, so far I think a small arrow (the same used for Firefox tabs) can be used instead. Users are familiar with it and so, it doesn't have to be a big problem. Thanks for the feedback! Honza > On Jan 8, 6:08 am, "Honza (Jan Odvarko)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yesterday, I have posted a short proposal how to solve a problem with > > too many panels in Firebug (coming from extensions). > > > Here is the original > > issue:http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=1842 > > > And the blog > > post:http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/too-many-panels-problem-in... > > > If you have any ideas/wishes/proposals how to solve this problem (so > > the UX is best possible) please respond on my blog or follow here. > > > Thanks! > > Honza > >
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