Re: [nbdev] Too many editor tabs?

I vote for this solution! Most of my superfluous tabs come from the
Debugger which I use extensively :)

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Marian Petras [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sendt: 21. marts 2006 00:16
Til: [email protected]; NB UI
Emne: [nbui] Re: [nbdev] Too many editor tabs?

I have read the other comments and I think that the following mechanism 
could work.

1) There is not a special mode (frame) but a special "navigation tab" 
for files opened just for browsing/navigation. The navigation tab is 
opened when a navigation action (Ctrl+click, debugger action, etc.) 
leads to a file not currently opened in the current tabs. When another 
such file is to be opened, content of the navigation tab is replaced 
with that file and the old content is lost.

2) The navigation tab keeps history of files that are open in it. It 
allows quick navigation to files which have been open during navigation 
but are not currently visible.

3) The navigation tab has a special action which "releases" the 
currently displayed file - it opens it in a "normal" tab. If the 
currently displayed file is the only file in the navigation tab, the tab

simply becomes a "normal" tab.

4) Modification of a file opened in the navigation tab invokes 
auto-release of the file, i.e. the "release" action described in 
paragraph 3) is performed automatically.

Please send your answers to <[email protected]>. Thanks.

Marian


David Strupl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I apologize for the crosspost but thought this might draw attention of

> different audiences. Please select alias according to the types of 
> comments (nbdev for "your code sucks", nbui "your UI sucks", nbusers
for 
> "I cannot make it run").
> 
> I was looking at my wife working with Eclipse the other day and she
kept 
> saying that she did not like it. She was using Visual Age for Java 
> before and keep telling my how much better it was compared to those 
> today's IDEs. After chatting for a while why she thought it was not 
> convenient to work with the modern IDE we found out that if you work
for 
> a while you end up literally buried in the flood of opened editor 
> windows. As today's NetBeans uses the very same UI for opened editor 
> tabs I have noticed that I also quite often end up using the action
for 
> closing all opened editor tabs.
> 
> I think that closing all the opened tabs might be useless if there
would 
> not be that many opened tabs in the first place.
> 
> So I have created a little module as a proof of concept only. You can 
> find it here (binary):
> http://www.solutions.cz/cz-solutions-simpleedit.nbm
> Sources in CVS:
> contrib/tool/simpleEdit
> 
> The module keeps closing the tabs for you if you open a new editor. I 
> have added 2 new controls to the main toolbar:
> 
> 1. [ ] Checkbox allowing to keep an editor view opened
> 2. < Back arrow for opening the previously closed editor view
> 
> To enable the closing functionality please go to
> 
> Tools --> Options --> Misc --> Editor tabs --> and check the checkbox.
> 
> I am well aware that this is only for testing, much better UI would be

> e.g. if the checkbox would be present directly in the editor tab
somewhere.
> 
> I know that this change touches the very delicate decision about what 
> should the GUI do by default (keep the editor tabs opened (and close
per 
> user's request) or to close them by default (and keep opened only per 
> user's request).
> 
> I am waiting for any kind of comments, best regards,
> 
> David