Re: [Gaim-devel] Prefslash04

[gabor <ga...@z1...>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 09:54, Christian Hammond wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:23:52AM +0200, gabor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 19:52, Sean Egan wrote:
> > > Can we just force everyone to use tabs anyway?  Probably not.  People
> > > suck.
> > 
> > ... the gnome people mostly think that tabs-are-evil....
> 
> Since when? Lots of gnome apps use tabs.

they say that using tabs basically duplicates the functionality of the
window manager, and tabs are a necessary-evil, until the window manager
reach a level where they can 'understand' that several windows should be
grouped together...

like the 'tab' feature of black/flux/whatever-box window managers + some
heuristics maybe to find out which windows to group....

if you search for 'tabs' on the gnome-usability list, there are some
usable mails...

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/usability/

bye,
gabor

p.s: i am not saying tabs should be removed (i don't use them
personally, but i can understand that some people like them...my
personal problem with them was that i didn't know when i got a new
message...i use the raise-on-events feature, but sometimes the window
got raised, and 2 people wrote me something, and i found one of them,
and forgot about the other...well, i could check the tabs for red text,
but for me it is easier to simply have separate windows for separate
chats)