 | | From: | Felix E. Klee | | Subject: | Tab-Groups? | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:04:15 +0100 |
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 | Creating new tabs is so easy with Opera that I frequently find myself
with dozens of tabs open, each sometimes only a few pixels wide. Often
I eventually loose track and, instead of closing tabs individually
(which would take too long), I simply kill the entire window. That's
not a good solution, of course, and that's why I came up with the
following idea: Tab-Groups. Here's how I imagine them to work:
- When one creates a new tab using the "new page" menu entry or similar
(I frequently press a key combination), then that tab should be
created in the usual way. An example:
[Opera.com] [Fastmail.fm]
- However, when one creates a new tab from within an existing page
(e.g. by right clicking on a link and selecting "Open in new page"),
then the new page should be grouped visually with the original tab.
For example:
[Opera.com] [Fastmail.fm]
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|Fastmail FAQ |
|Emailaddresses.com Forum|
+------------------------+
The menu in the above example should appear, perhaps, when one is
holding the mouse button on the tab "[Fastmail.fm]".
Opinions?
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Felix E. Klee
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| | From: | Felix E. Klee | | Subject: | Re: Tab-Groups? | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:22:59 +0100 |
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| At Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:04:15 +0100,
Felix E. Klee wrote:
> The menu in the above example should appear, perhaps, when one is
> holding the mouse button on the tab "[Fastmail.fm]".
Just thought about it again: Having to navigate menus would slow down
browsing. How about making it possible to expand a tab group e.g. by
double clicking on a tab group parent? Some examples:
1. Closed tabs and tab groups:
[Opera.com] [Fastmail.fm v]
2. User presses holds mouse button while mouse cursor is on tab group
parent. => The menu appears (my initial proposal that I already
explained):
[Opera.com] [Fastmail.fm v]
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|Fastmail FAQ |
|Emailaddresses.com Forum|
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3. User stops pressing the button. => The menu disappears:
[Opera.com] [Fastmail.fm v]
4. User double clicks on tab group parent. => The tab group is expanded
(my new proposal):
+---------------------------------------------------------+
[Opera.com] |[Fastmail.fm >] [Fastmail FAQ] [Emailaddresses.com Forum]|
+---------------------------------------------------------+
5. User double clicks on tab group parent. => The tab group is
unexpanded:
[Opera.com] |[Fastmail.fm v]
The double click could be replaced by something else, perhaps by a
single click on the icon indicated by "v" and ">" in the above examples.
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Felix E. Klee
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| | From: | exclipy | | Subject: | Re: Tab-Groups? | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:01:07 +1000 |
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| If you have the problem of tabs getting too small, try setting your page
bar to wrap. Right click it > Customize > Toolbars tab > Wrapping.
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| | From: | Felix E. Klee | | Subject: | Re: Tab-Groups? | | Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:46:31 +0100 |
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| At Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:00:35 +0100,
Geoff Morris wrote:
> > My problem is not that they are too small but that I loose track since
> > there are too many. I wouldn't like wrapping.
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> Ever thought of spawning a new window (CRTRL-ALT-N) and just dragging
> groups of related documents there from the page bar?
That's too cumbersome. Also, I don't like having multiple browser
windows open at the same time (switching between them is, again,
cumbersome).
What I want is a way to have groups of tabs created automatically
without much thinking on my part. The method described on previous
postings would achieve this, AFAICS. Of course, it probably needs some
tuning (especially concerning the "v/>"-icon) to be really useful.
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Felix E. Klee
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| | From: | Felix E. Klee | | Subject: | Re: Tab-Groups? | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:07:28 +0100 |
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| At Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:01:07 +1000,
exclipy wrote:
> If you have the problem of tabs getting too small, try setting your page
> bar to wrap. Right click it > Customize > Toolbars tab > Wrapping.
My problem is not that they are too small but that I loose track since
there are too many. I wouldn't like wrapping.
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Felix E. Klee
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| | From: | Geoff Morris | | Subject: | Re: Tab-Groups? | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:00:35 +0100 |
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| On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:07:28 +0100, Felix E. Klee
wrote:
> My problem is not that they are too small but that I loose track since
> there are too many. I wouldn't like wrapping.
Ever thought of spawning a new window (CRTRL-ALT-N) and just dragging
groups of related documents there from the page bar?
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Geoff
Sorry about the munged address - too many viruses out there!
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