On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:56 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote: > Sure there are some benefits to Tabs reinventing the window manager inside > the browser but speed was always been the primary reason for tabs in > Mozilla.
I think tabs in Mozilla do some cool things that you could not very practically do on a window manager level. One example would be bookmarking all tabs into a folder, and opening all the contents of a bookmark folder in tabs. There are many applications that would not need a "tab style" solution in the windows manager : games, instant messengers, gconf, floppy formatter... I think that the way tabs work is entirely dependent on the application that uses them, just look at the tabs x-chat, firefox, vmware etc. Nautilus tabs would work differently also, I don't think the functionality available with tabs to these applications could be properly implemented in a window manager. > > > if you could drag and drop files to tabs, as in firefox for example. > > I didn't realise the tab head was a drag target until you mentioned it. I find this rather handy, I often drag links to tabs, to new tabs (drag to free space on tab bar) and between windows. If you drag a link from bookmarks or the bookmark toolbar, to the tab bar, it opens it in a new tab without steeling tab focus. Love, Karderio _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
