TabConsistency

Revision 1 as of 2006-06-19 14:06:38

Clear message
  • - UI for
    • - tab opening
      • - not needed for context-specific stuff like instant messengers - useful for document-centric options - DECISION: should be always-on-left - DECISION: keystroke should be Ctrl-T except for Terminal apps, which will use Ctrl-Shift-T
      - tab closing
      • - two options: close-on-tab, or close-on-right - lots of usability factors in favour of close-on-right BUT
        • -- firefox 2.0 moving to close-on-tab
        - DECISION: close-on-right by default, if possible making this themable / power-user-settable
      - tab moving
      • - firefox gives nice arrow indicator of where the tab would be "dropped"
    • - keystrokes for:
      • - tab opening (out of the box consistant shortcut key standartization) - switching tabs

        • - DECISION: Ctrl-PgUp to switch to tab to the left of current tab, Ctrl-PgDn to switch right - DECISION: switching tabs will wrap, so if you are on the left-most tab, Ctrl-PgUp will jump to the right-most tab

        - closing tabs - moving tabs
        • - DECISION
      - accessibility
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      - localization: for RTL languages, maybe change the location of the open/close tabs icons?