[ge-talk] title tabs...what to do with them?

[Ari Haviv]

On 1/4/07, Jonathan Thompson <jonathanthompson at s93114613.onlinehome.us>
wrote:
>
> Keep in mind that not everyone processes information in the same manner:
> some people do equally well with text and icons, while others do well
> with icons, but have a hard time with text, and some do well with text,
> but have a hard time with icons: icons tend to typically leave me
> confused and unable to recognize things as quickly for some reason.
> Thus, it's better to have the ability to cater to user's information
> processing strengths.


That is definitely true and one of the big problems with the MacOSX Dock is
that you can't always tell from the icons what  app you have.
I like both.  I found that with an icon and *some* text I can figure it out
quickly but if it was all text or just an icon I have to either figure it
out or settle for really long tabs.

I suggested only icons for vertical tabs so that you wouldn't have the pain
of reading vertical text. I'm not a fan of vertical tabs to begin with but
you might need them if you have no horizontal space and just so many
windows. If you mouseover the icon you would get a tooltip that shows the
title horizontally.

http://labs.mozilla.com/2006/11/chromatabs/ has an interesting discussion
about picking out tabs based on color vs text. i'm not sure the solution of
basing the color on the website is a good idea because that would mean a lot
of similar colored tabs

Someone came up with this crazy idea of tab stacks:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dria/On_Tabs#Tab_Stacks
I suppose the stack would open up somewhat like this demo
http://homepage.mac.com/rdas7/stacks.html
Ironically, Apple never implemented stacks so Microsoft added it to Vista.

Jonathan Thompson also wrote:
And I'm one of those people that tends to have a large number of windows
open, to where one of my biggest BeOS complaints is the App_Server
thread limit and how it (mal)functions when the limit is reached :P

As much as I want the most advanced UI in the planet with all the tiny
little details, I hope we get a good core foundation first. It's a pain to
update all your apps every time there's a new OS release because it wasn't
thought out through in the first place.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.bug-br.org.br/pipermail/glasselevator-talk/attachments/20070104/49d7cc91/attachment.html