From: Andrew S. <gt...@ma...> - 2004-10-14 18:51:47
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On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 14:41 -0400, Sean Egan wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:14:19 -0400, Andrew Sayman > <gt...@ma...> wrote: > > No no no no no no... > > Top and bottom are the worst for screen real-estate vs. information > > shown. The whole conversation window is set up so that information will > > flow from top to bottom. This means that you'll always have more > > vertical pixels than horizontal pixels. Especially if you want to put > > chats and conversations in the same tabbed area, there are a lot of tabs > > to display. > > I think I understand your concern, but you reasoning is flawed. > Putting tabs on the bottom doesn't take more room because there's more > room on the side, but because text is a lot wider than it is tall. I missed a few words in there... what I meant was that putting tabs along the left and right is better because conversation names tend to take up less vertical space. This means you can comfortably fit a lot more of them in right/left tabs because this is the area with the most vertical space. > > A lot of people have concern about the way gtknotebook scrolls tabs, > but once we can ellipsize them, we can theoretically put as many tabs > in as little space as possible. > I don't know for sure what ellipses are, but if this is anything like how Firefox handles tabs, it won't solve the problem I'm describing at all. If I have 20 conversations open, I'm just going to see 20 sets of "..." Along the right and left you can ellipse at say 20 characters. This will limit the amount of horizontal expansion, and give you plenty of space for lots of conversations to be listed along the vertical. -- Marketing: The art of making you think you got something better than you actually did. |