Re: Re: [nbdev] Too many editor tabs?

Marian Petras <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Organization Sun Microsystems Czech, s.r.o.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That's a problem.
> If I want to open file X, I have to magically divine whether it's
> in the "current tabs" or in the navigation tab.
> We want 1 "cache" for user to look into not two

I agree that "we want 1 cache" - theoretically. But as there are 
multiple and mixed(!) use cases of navigation/editing/opening files, I 
still consider my suggested solution the best I can think of at the moment.


> Tab's in my view are "implementation artifacts" they are associated
> with buffers/models. Why do we need them? An editor view should provide
> easy access to files.

Again, this is too theoretical for me and it does not lead me to 
anything more usable.

Marian
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