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[Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 I don't have an awesome ui reason, but it sure goes against my intuition
when my tabs shift. If these decisions are made, I would like to see them
based in research rather than anecdotes, personally.
On Sep 24, 2012 9:16 PM, "ttosttos Sa" <ttosttos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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