Re: Tab close button gets clobbered by tabs

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 06:52:40PM -0400, Rob S wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This evening I discovered that if I open too many tabs, the close tab
> 'X' at the top right of the browser gets clobbered out of sight, until
> I close some tabs (with CTRL-w).   On the old Dillo (2.x), you could
> open a fair amount of tabs, and the x would never be clobbered, but
> instead a new instance of Dillo would start, after (I presume) a
> predetermined amount of tabs were opened.

  Oh yes I forgot about this workaround...

  We  had  to  code  a  custom  tabs  widget to have control over
certain things, and it helped to make the code much simpler with
fltk-1.3 too.

  Now  we  have  full  control  of  the  tab widget, and have not
finished coding it yet (especially the overflow case).


> On another note, while fiddling with the tabs on Dillo 3 and 2.x, I
> got comparing the two, and I think I like the look of the old version
> better.  I have two reasons:
> 
> 1) I think the old version tabs look nicer (I realize not everyone
> will think like me), and more like the tabs you would see in other
> browsers.

  Yes,  this  is  a  matter  of  taste. I've received some emails
saying the new tabs are/look better.


> 2) From a practical standpoint, the old tabs seemed to behave a little
> nicer, in that they would adjust their size a little bit to show more
> of the title of the page opened in it.  As it stands with Dillo 3, you
> can't see much of the title text before it gets an ellipsis.

  Right.  I  added  a few lines making the new tabs do this in my
tree (testing now). Some users may find it useful, others not.

  It  may be a good idea to code tab overflow handling before the
release.


-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-