Hi all, Bit of discussion about tabs on this list. :)
My review of tab implementations in GNOME [1] is pretty much finished. There's a list of relevant bugs and mailing list threads, a summary of the usability issues as they exist now, and a review of existing implementations (across different applications and so on). My current focus is on identifying inconsistencies in GNOME applications' tab implementations and ensuring that bugs are filed against them [2]. Feel free to comment on my findings. Is there anything on that page that should be a bug but hasn't been reported? One area where there is virtually no common pattern is in what entries are contained within tab context menus [3]. Does anyone have an opinion on which entries should be there by default? I was at GUADEC this year and had the opportunity to talk to some folks who are involved in GNOME Shell. The view that I got was that it is hoped that, with the shell, tabs won't be needed as much as they are now. Better window management should be able to replace most of the things that tabs are used for, with the major exception being web-browsing. It's a view I'm in favour of and which seems realisable. As a result, I'm looking at developing a set of design goals (and potential solutions) for tabs in the web-browser. I've got some ideas there which I'll post to the wiki once they're ready. Some interesting ideas have also come out of the Mozilla summer design challenge [4], which I'm looking at. Best, Allan [1] http://bit.ly/3D20jF [2] http://bit.ly/4snJ7Q [3] http://bit.ly/qdGke [4] http://bit.ly/16r4Oi -- aday on irc.gnome.org _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
