I'm finding that when I'm working with tabs, there are a few I'm focussed on and a few kept for occasional use. So I might have 4 working tabs, and 3 occasional ones. But that's quite a lot to have all in one continuous block on the left all looking the same. I think this will be a common problem that different users will have different preferred solutions to.
* It would be ideal (in my view) to be able to drag (or right-click and "move to right") the less used tabs to the right side of the window so they are kept separate for clicking on, or perhaps there could be a discrete widget you could move them to out of sight (like a droplist) that they could be clicked on and reappear (or they could be kept in sight like a mini sidebar) - so right-click the tab and "Demote". If tabs are on the right it may be they take up less space in doing so, and there could be a Fonts and Colours option devoted to tabs on the right.
* Another option is to be able to right click tabs and set tab colours by hand, so people would choose a colour such as grey they use for unimportant ones, and they would drag these less used ones to the right (even if all on the right of the current left-hand block). I think having a variety of colours would need an adjustment to the current colouring concept, perhaps there could be a palatte of custom colouring styles (fore and back for each with a title) that when set become chooseable options by title when you right-click a tab. For example a person might have a tab colour combo called 'Occasional' and right-click a tab choose that colour for such. Colour is definitely important for many people. I would use colour a lot.
Perhaps people could chip in with other ways to deal with less-used tabs you want to have available but be less prominent.
David
* It would be ideal (in my view) to be able to drag (or right-click and "move to right") the less used tabs to the right side of the window so they are kept separate for clicking on, or perhaps there could be a discrete widget you could move them to out of sight (like a droplist) that they could be clicked on and reappear (or they could be kept in sight like a mini sidebar) - so right-click the tab and "Demote". If tabs are on the right it may be they take up less space in doing so, and there could be a Fonts and Colours option devoted to tabs on the right.
* Another option is to be able to right click tabs and set tab colours by hand, so people would choose a colour such as grey they use for unimportant ones, and they would drag these less used ones to the right (even if all on the right of the current left-hand block). I think having a variety of colours would need an adjustment to the current colouring concept, perhaps there could be a palatte of custom colouring styles (fore and back for each with a title) that when set become chooseable options by title when you right-click a tab. For example a person might have a tab colour combo called 'Occasional' and right-click a tab choose that colour for such. Colour is definitely important for many people. I would use colour a lot.
Perhaps people could chip in with other ways to deal with less-used tabs you want to have available but be less prominent.
David
Statistics: Posted by meteorquake — Sun Dec 29, 2024 7:05 am