Re: Too many editor tabs?
Marian Petras <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface |
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| Organization | Sun Microsystems Czech, s.r.o. |
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I would not use tabs for the "temp area". The reason is that there would be many of them which is exactly the problem we want to solve. Another reason is that you do not need to have all files from the "temp area" so quickly accessible. To summarize, I would use only the "history browsing GUI element" or better just a "history browsing action". Marian David Strupl wrote: > Hi Marian, > > what about following GUI: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > | A x | B x | | | | > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > | | > . . > . . > . . > | | > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > | ^ C x | ^ D x | | | X | > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > "Permanent Area": > ---------------- > Top of the editor tab (area with A, B) - like what we have today. > "Temp Area": > ------------ > Bottom of the editor area: temporarily opened files by: > a. debugger > b. code browsing (Ctrl-click) > c. search (in files) and find usages > > In the Temp Area you have tabs enhanced with up arrow ^ which would move > the file to the permanent area. Moving up can be also achieved by e.g. > editing the file (?). > > Also there is X in the permanent area closing all temporarily opened tabs. > > The temp area can have tabs (to keep it consistent with the rest of the > GUI ?) or it can be some history browsing GUI element. > > Of course there might be an option to enable/disable this sort of thing > ;-)) > > What do you (and the others) think? Haven't heard from our GUI expert > group yet ... Or is it forbidden for developers to have an opinion about > the GUI usability? > > David