[sugar] Needs for Browse

Morgan Collett morgan.collett
Wed Jul 2 13:58:13 EDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 17:49, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2. Tabs -- we need them
>>> It takes too long to alt+tab between multiple instance of Browse. I
>>> don't think kids will be confused by multiple tabs but we can test this
>>> out soon.
>>
>> Not arguing here about tabs or no tabs, but perhaps improving activity
>> switching might alleviate this as well as improving general usability?
>
> I also won't argue tabs or no-tabs at present (though the initial
> designs did have tabs, there were some concerns about them as well).
> I'd second Tomeu's comment; the new Frame design as well as the new
> alt-tab behavior are *much* better than before.  Also, in addition to
> the standard alt-tab, I want to add alt-backtick as well to cycle only
> through all instances of the current activity. (ticket #7335) This is
> specifically to facilitate this use case, would make switching much
> more direct.

Whether tabs or windows (instances), I think we need an easy way to
open a new blank one, and open a link in a new one.

Morgan



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