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[Debjit Biswas <debjitbis08@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original message -----
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Debjit Biswas <debjitbis08@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I have been working on a tabbed interface for the editor for past few
> > days. Is it worth the effort? Does anyone think it will be useful?
> > 
> > I am attaching the patch here of whatever I have achieved till now. The
> > basic interface is ready but some underlying features have to be
> > implemented such as closing a file on closing a tab :P
> 
> While I am usually proponent of tabbed interface in this case I am
> against it. The information we currently display in our app is more
> important than a tabbed interface, IMHO. And adding tabbed interface
> means that the UI will probably become too cluttered to be easily
> displayed on low resolution screens.
> Of course if more users think that tabbed interface is important then
> I am all for it. Just make sure that there is no loss of functionality
> in tabbed interface. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Onkar
> -- 
> Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software.
> Don't ask why - the reason is the same.

Ok, I will suspend this work for now. Will concentrate on more important issues.
I must put in here that a tabbed interface for just the editor is not going to make the UI cluttered but there are going to be lot of changes relating to file handling, which are not very simple.

Thanks,
-- Debjit