Tab consistency feature
Erik Jan Philippo
erik at philippo.tweakdsl.nl
Sun Mar 18 20:35:41 GMT 2007
Hi everybody,
I'm really interested in tabconsistency feature. It's very annoying that
all the tab based application behave different. But I don't think the
current proposal is the right way. I think we should make an standard
for the tab behavior. We should collaborate with several open source
projects. I suggest mozilla, gnome, kde and novells betterdesktop.
The standard should be well tested with usability tests (that's why i
think betterdesktop.org is usefull). If the standard is defined we
should ask as much as possible open source (if they use tabs) projects
to implement it. Off course we provide them with the results of the
usability research to convince them. If kde, gnome and mozilla agree
with it, probable a lot of small programs will also use it. I hope this
will lead to a very consistent tab behavior in every open source
applications.
Before I'm going to spend my time with it, I like know what the ubuntu
developers think of it? I will only do this if they support it.
Otherwise we are doing things double. Collaborations are better :) At
the moment they support it, it's time to contact the specific projects.
Ask if they are open for such a standard.
Btw, sorry for my English. It's not my first language.
Greetings,
Erik
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