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Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs
but action speaks louder than words, and a document who'se identity
predominantly defines the content of the screen, needs not be
identified by reading the titlebar text. looking at the screen alone
suffices to know, what window i'm closing.
To show the document title is orthogonal to the interaction syntax of
hitting the window-close control of a document which is in the front.
since that is the case, left-close is our spacial memory already:
because all windows have this control on the top-left (even window
previews in the future).
On 2011-02-01, Remco <remco47@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:51, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Paul Sladen wrote on 27/01/11 12:24:
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>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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>>>> Chromium and Chrome have close buttons on the right of their tabs
>>>> because it's faster to use than having them on the left.
>>>> <http://www.theinvisibl.com/2009/12/08/chrometabs/>
>>>
>>> I fear that the "open in middle" tab behaviour rather killed that
>>> advantage. You now (Firefox default) have to hunt for the tab to
>>> close, rather than the most recent tab being at the end. :)
>>>...
>>
>> On the contrary, it means that tabs relating to the same task are
>> grouped together (because they were opened from the same parent tab), so
>> they can be closed together when you are done.
>>
>> Meanwhile, Firefox is adopting the same fast-tab-closing scheme, which
>> means Firefox's close buttons will stay on the right too.
>> <http://frankyan.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/making-tab-closing-easy/>
>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465086#c183>
>
> There is no causal relation between buttons on the right and the fast
> closing scheme. As the blog post acknowledges, everything could be
> mirrored, and it would still work. The justification for buttons on
> the right is that LTR languages read from left to right. The same
> could be said for window closing buttons, so why not put those on the
> right, too?
>
> --
> Remco
>
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