[MonoDevelop] Extended notebook widget

Todd Berman tberman@sevenl.net
Sat, 01 May 2004 12:51:59 -0400


On Sun, 2004-02-05 at 00:39 +0900, Ian MacLean wrote:
> Todd Berman wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-01-05 at 13:26 +0900, Ian MacLean wrote:
> >  
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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)
> >
> >  
> >
> 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.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> How are the two things mutually exclusive - am I missing somthing - 
> probably.
> 

They aren't at all. Was just saying of the two extended notebook
features, which one I would be more happy to end up using.

Just planting seeds is the phrase I guess ;)

--Todd