Re: Detachable sidebar

On Apr 16, 2006, at 17:32 , Joshua Root wrote:
> Jonathan Tyzack wrote:
>>> On 16 Apr 2006, at 17:02, Marcus Jüngling wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. The sidebar with the tabs should be detachable to take it  
>>> anywhere
>>> all over the screen.
>> while on the surface that sounds like a nice idea, it just  
>> wouldn't work
>> in the real world. Which window would it be associated with if you  
>> have
>> more than one open at a time? It would be impossible to tell.
> While I don't think this is a very useful thing to do, in its defence
> GraphicConverter does something similar with its tool palettes.  
> Each image
> window has an associated palette which can be moved anywhere, and  
> the problem
> of associating palettes with windows is solved by hiding all the  
> palettes
> which belong to background windows.
But I manipulate the thumb bar of nonselected browsers (e.g. by  
dragging other thumbs to them.  That example is just a different  
paradigm -- makes sense for programs like OmniGraffle, but not OW.

Really I'm answering because every time I see the subject line of  
this message I am reminded of that song by King Missile.