My 2c worth below.
On 13 May 2010 09:54, Colomban Wendling lists.ban@herbesfolles.org wrote:
Hi,
I would like to add the possibility for new editor's tabs to be added before/after the current tab, since I'm often annoyed by tabs added far from my working one. This is quite easy to do, but I have some questions about how to make this a preference.
Personally I prefer it to come up in a fixed position, but thats why its controlled by a preference :-)
Currently, the tab positioning (before/after all other tabs) is controlled by the boolean preference tab_order_ltr. Fine, but not to extend it. Then, I see two ways to go:
- Change this to an integer (or something) that represent an enumeration:
before all, before current, after all, after current. 2. Add a second preference to choose whether the tabs are added before/after the current or all tabs.
I think that 1 is probably a little better from the user's point of view (not sure), but it would probably be a pain to implement, because it would need to change the type of a preference... the problem is to keep compatibility with previous configuration version.
2 is then probably the way to go;
Agreed
the pref UI could even hide the complexity. But then, some question comes to my mind: a. Which name give to this preference?
tab_order_beside then tab_order_ltr says which side.
b. How to show it to the user?
Placement of new tabs: X at end X beside current X left X right
But then not everyone likes my UI designs :-)
Then as usual, I ask for your wise answers :) And as a bonus question, what do you think of the feature?
Not for me, but if it annoys you enough to do it, why not.
Cheers Lex
Thanks! Colomban
PS: I join a proposed implementation that lacks the preference but works fine (as far as I can think/say/see). _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel