Re: GtkNotebook scrolling

Rui Tiago Cação Matos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.usability
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16 March 2010 01:59, Cody Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> As you open new tabs, they shrink in size until it gets to a point where
> they won't shrink any further.  At that point the tabs on the left go
> offscreen while you're adding new ones on the right.  Once you've got
> some offscreen notebook tabs you can mouse-wheel back and forth and it
> scrolls through the notebook tabs but *without changing the selected
> tab*.  That's the key difference between Firefox and gtk's behavior, and
> that is my particular source of annoyance with the current gtk behavior.

As a further data point here, the Mozilla people seem to have changed
this recently to the current GTK+ behaviour[1]. *But* using a nightly
build from a few days ago it still works as you describe so I'm not
sure if the patch[2] on that bugzilla is actually doing what it seems
it would do...

> I'd be interested in implementing something better than what we have.
> Scroll events on a notebook tab didn't really make sense to me
> conceptually before, but the way the Firefox tabs are implemented it
> kind of does.  The big usability flaw with ours (imo, anyway) is that
> scroll events actually switch the page on you.

BTW, I agree with you. Changing page on scroll events feels abrupt to me.

Rui

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281192
[2] http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4f3e5df9b2cd
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