Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs

[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

It is true that Chrome does not currently cover the use case Matthew
presented, even with the buttons on the right, but I think his point
was that it *could* if the devs *wanted to*, while with buttons on
the right, it is not possible without awkwardness.

That said, I do question if two having different behaviors (sliding
when the tab is not the final one, resizing when it is) is a good
idea... sounds inconsistent and awkward in its own way.

Also, even buttons on the right do not properly cover the case
where the use wants to start closing by the last tab, but there
are not enough tabs to horizontally fill the screen, unless we
follow the "tabs are streched for horizontal feeling even when
there are very few tabs" philosophy of Nautilus... which is kinda
ugly, to be honest.


Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 14:14 -0500, Mark Curtis a écrit :
> Chrome's tab behavior for quickly closing tabs is for quickly closing
> the current tab and the ones after (to the right) of it.
> If close buttons for the tabs were on the left, then Chrome's behavior
> would be the same, reorder the tabs upon close, resize them
> (if necessary) ones the mouse leaves the tab area.
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:34:18 +0000
> > From: mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs
> > 
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> > Mark Shuttleworth wrote on 20/02/11 15:04:
> > >
> > > The close-multiple-tabs-fast behaviour just requires that the tab
> > > realignment be smart. If you look closely, Chrome realigns twice,
> once
> > > for fast closing, then for better spacing.
> > >
> > > In other words, if fast-closing is a goal, then it's perfectly
> possible
> > > to ensure that successive close buttons are placed underneath one
> > > another, and then the whole set are re-flowed once the obvious
> > > "closefest" is over.
> > >...
> > 
> > That would be correct only when none of the tabs you were closing
> was
> > the last one in the row.
> > 
> > If yo u did close the last tab, though, then putting the close
> > button for the previous tab under the cursor would require the
> developer
> > to choose one of three unattractive options.
> > 
> > 1. Widen all tabs to be even wider than they will be once you leave,
> > and crop part of the last one:
> > 
> > | ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ |
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \/x 4 \/x 5 \|
> > ↓
> > | ______ ______ ______ ↓____|
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \/x 4 |\
> > ↓
> > | __________ __________ ↓____|
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 | \
> > 
> > | ________ ________ ________ |
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \| (after leaving)
> > 
> > 2. Widen all tabs except the last one to be wider than they will be
> > once you leave, with the last one temporarily being narrower than
> > all the others:
> > 
> > | ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ |
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \/x 4 \/x 5 \|
> > ↓
> > | ______ ______ ______ ↓___ |
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \/x 4 \|
> > ↓
> > | __________ __________ ↓___ |
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \|
> > 
> > | ________ ________ ________ |
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \|
> > 
> > 3. Make all tabs temporarily jump one place to the right, resizing
> > back to the left when you leave:
> > 
> > | ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ |
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \/x 4 \/x 5 \|
> > ↓
> > | ____ ____ ____ ↓___ |
> > |______/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \/x 4 \|
> > ↓
> > | ____ ____ ↓___ |
> > |____________/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \|
> > 
> > | ________ ________ ________ |<
>  /font>
> > |/x 1 \/x 2 \/x 3 \|
> > 
> > 
> > Close buttons at the trailing end avoid any of these awkward
> choices.
> > And as a bonus, if all the tabs you closed were, when you closed
> them,
> > the last tab in the row, no further resizing is required once you
> leave
> > the area.
> > 
> > | ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ |
> > |/ 1 x\/ 2 x\/ 3 x\/ 4 x\/ 5 x\|
> > ↓
> > | ______ _____ ______ ____↓ |
> > |/ 1 x\/ 2 x\/ 3 x\/ 4 x\|
> > ↓
> > | ________ ________ _______↓ |
> > |/ 1 x\/ 2 x\/ 3 x\|
> > 
> > | ________ ________ ________ |
> > |/ 1 x\/ 2 x\/ 3 x\|
> > 
> > - -- 
> > mpt
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