[Geany] Message window "quirk"

[Nexu]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 15:26 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:11:11 +0100, Nick Treleaven
> <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/07/06 13:36:17, Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> > > I made a tiny modifictation to my Geany build, so that the tabs are
> > > on bottom. But what really bothers me is not the space taken by the
> > > Message window, since I probably will use them in the left too. The
> > > problem is that if the user shrinks the window, the tabs go out of
> > > reach. I think we could set the GTKVPaned (vpaned1) to only allow
> > > shrinkage to a certain point, so the user could always see the tabs
> > > (if he didnot want to see them he can always hide MsgWindow)
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I think we could add a preference to allow a different position.
> > >> Personally I prefer the message window tabs on the left because it
> > >> saves me vertical space (since I need about 6 lines visible
> > >> anyway) as
> > >> messages rarely take up the width of the message window.
> > 
> > Perhaps we could do this, but I think many users would find it
> > annoying that they couldn't choose how tall the message window is. I
> > realise that there is a usability issue that the user can't click on
> > a hidden notebook tab, but it is caused by the user lowering the
> > pane, so it is the user's choice. Also it is not a serious usability
> > issue because if the user has lowered the messages pane, then they
> > must know what to do to raise it again.
> I think the user should can decide how tall the message window is. If
> he lowers it so that the tabs aren't visible anymore, he can raise it
> again or just leave it and be happy with it.

I use a hot key to hide/show the message window and from time to time i
need to resize it. (eg: viewing 'svn diff' in VTE is more compfortable
with a larger message window area)

> > At the moment it seems more useful to allow any size pane, but
> > perhaps we could limit the minimum height for the case where notebook
> > tabs are grouped horizontally. Maybe horizontal tabs should be the
> > default behaviour.
> No, I agree to add an option to choose where the tabs are placed, but
> the default behaviour should be as it is.

Tabs are intuitive as they are now imo.