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Oopss... watch out for that argument.  It doesn't hold true for millions
(should probably say billions) of people around the world :-)  I find the
shifting of all tabs a bit unintuitive.  I personally find more natural
that new tabs fill the empty space instead of shifting all the existing
tabs.  In addition, double click on the empty tabbar space currently has
the odd result of adding a tab far away from where the double click took
place (which should be where the user attention is).


--ttosttos
ps. On a somewhat related note, I think the widget could benefit from some
visual work.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Voldyman <voldyman666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another argument can be that most of the languages we use are written from
> left to right so our mental model dictates that the new things should be on
> the right and the left side remains unchanged.
> example.
> we write
> D
> Da
> Dan
> -not
> n
> an
> Dan
>
> On Sep 25,  2012, at 6:10 AM, Daniel Fore <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yea I commented on the bug report, IIRC.
>
> The biggest argument I heard for tabs on the right side was that the
> mental model of the tabbar flow from most used to least used (just like the
> toolbar). So when you insert a new tab, you are by-definition placing the
> least-used (so far) tab on the left side in front of the most used (longest
> open) tabs.
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:50 AM, David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Sergey,
>
> The other day we were talking about this on IRC and we almost changed
> Daniel's mind I think. I'm not 100% sure of what he thinks now, but the
> general opinion is to have tabs opening on the right on every single
> application for consistency with 3rd party apps, because we read from left
> to right and because adding tabs on the beginning makes our brain
> reorganize the tab system (we have to +1 the position of every single tab,
> since it gets changed).
>
> Those were some of the arguments presented.
>
> David "Munchor" Gomes
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <<sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I've just remembered - Ctrl+T adds tabs on the right of the current one,
>> not on the left. This seems inconsistent to me. Is it a Granite bug or it
>> should be fixed in the apps?
>>
>> --
>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>> OS architect @ elementary
>>
>
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