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[Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Debjit Biswas <debjitbis08@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ----- 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.

I didn't mean that you should stop the work. It is just that there are
certain other important things IMHO. I liked the patches you submitted
for easier memory editing. It is features like those, that will
increase user base. :-)


Onkar