[MonoDevelop] Extended notebook widget

Ian MacLean ianm@activestate.com
Sun, 02 May 2004 00:39:11 +0900


Todd Berman wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-01-05 at 13:26 +0900, Ian MacLean wrote:
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>huh, im talking about the close button *on* the tab. surely a single
>mouse click is faster than a right click, find menu item, click again.
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>and you dont need to select the tab to close it, you just click close
>and it works. (with the close button on the tab)
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Sorry. My Bad. I haven't run Monodevelop recently and I just assumed you 
were talking about a single close button for all tabs. In that case 
you're right - the menu is probably unnecessary duplication.

>>The other argument is user expectation. Visual studio, mozilla firefox 
>>and other commonly used apps have the context menus on tabs so there 
>>will be some expectation for MonoDevelop to do the same.
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>Hmm, i see your point here, but i still dunno. To me, having a tab
>control with re-arrangable tabs is far more important than one with a
>context menu on the tab itself.
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How are the two things mutually exclusive - am I missing somthing - 
probably.

Ian