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:
1. 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).
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