[Sugar-devel] [SPAM?]: Re: [DESIGN] Tabs in Browse

[Kevin Gordon]

Folks:

In safari 5.1 you can hit ctrl-t to open a new tab.  Or to the right of the
address bar, there is a little drop-down from a page with a
corner-turned-down icon t invoke that.  The new tab defaults to the 'top'
sites frame, but the URL is empty and ready to be filled in.  Not
recommending this:  the chrome, IE, and firefox methods all seem more
intuitive to me, just saying that it can be done.

KG

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>wrote:

> On 08/17/2011 01:51 PM, Gary Martin wrote:
>
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On 17 Aug 2011, at 10:20, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de**>  wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> in the current version of Browse tabs are enabled by default. The tabs in
>>> Browse has been an unfinished Feature which mainly was meant to fix the
>>> issue of a web page opening a new window (this was then opened in a new tab
>>> automatically).
>>>
>>> The latest Browse does add the functionality to let the user add tabs,
>>> the '+' button in the toolbar [browse-toolbar]. Having several tabs open
>>> looks like [browse-tabs]. A few things to say here: the close icon is not
>>> sugarized. The coloring of the tabs is not in a Sugar style and the text
>>> does not elipsize - hence the tabs can have different sizes (see Firefox for
>>> an example here).
>>>
>>> I would propose as well to do something similar as Firefox in the latest
>>> version: placing the 'add tab' button next to the latest tab [firefox-tabs].
>>> This has the nice side effect of not introducing yet another icon in the
>>> toolbar.
>>>
>>
>> Unless we show the tab bar at all times (i.e. when you only have one
>> window open), how would a second tab ever be added (other than via a web
>> page opening a new window)?
>>
>
> Firefox does show one tab all the time. It is true that this kills a bit of
> space but I think I could live with that.
>
> I checked in Safari: here you can only open links in a new tab (apple-key
> when you click on the link as a shortcut). You can not open a new empty tab
> and then type in the URL. That would be another option. We could add the
> 'open in new tab' to the link palette and reserve as well a short-cut if
> desired. Is less discoverable though (I had to look up the docs to find it
> in Safari).
>
> A completely non-tab approach do have smart phone UIs like the one for the
> Galaxy S2. You can open here a new window. That would be similar than
> opening a new Browse instance which was the original idea of dealing with
> that use case. So navigating between the browser windows is more natural on
> those UIs.
>
> I would go with the first approach of showing a tab all time from the above
> options.
>
>  Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>> P.S. Perhaps we could land the sugarized scroll bar at the same time, if I
>> remember we just didn't have a clean way to apply it the Mozilla theme.
>> Pretty sure I spotted the tab visual theme in the same place.
>>
>
> Ahh, I remember that vaguely. If you know where it goes and can provide a
> patch or something more crude for showing off, off we go! :)
>
> Regards,
>   Simon
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