Tab Interface

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• sebastiaan

  November 2011 edited 3:07AM

  Thanks for the feedback!

  Perhaps you could always have a "Overview" button to the left of the tabs. When this button is selected/active, whatever item is highlighted in the overview panel (either through clicking or scrolling), then appears as a special "tab" window.

  Hmm, I really like the general idea, but I'm not sure about the specifics. Here's a small variation on the same theme:

  • Scrolling in the overview area has the same effects as successively clicking on the various items (ie., opening lots of tabs)

  • In addition, there's a "single tab" option (perhaps indeed in the form of a toggle-able button or checkbox to the left of the tabs). If enabled, opening a new tab will have the effect of replacing the current tab, thus preventing "tab-accumulation".

  What do you think?

  Relatedly, it would also be very helpful if when open a lot of tabs, instead of pushing the window to the right, the tabs automatically stacked as multiple rows, instead of a really long single row.

  Yes, I agree that this would be better. But it may be tricky, since the tab-widget is a built-in part of the graphical toolkit (Qt4, QTabWidget). So this minor change might be more complicated than at first sight it would seem, in which case I will probably not get around to it in the very near future.

  
  
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• Roger

  November 2011 edited 3:07AM

  I like the idea of the the toggle-able button "single tab" option. Can't wait to start beta-testing it. :-)
• sebastiaan

  November 2011 edited 3:07AM

  Right now we're finalizing 0.25, but for 0.26 I'll definitely include it (or something along those lines). Btw, if you'd like to do beta-testing, it might be worthwhile to install a Python environment. This way you can always download and test the latest code snapshot from GitHub, rather than having to wait for pre-release packages (which I typically create only as the actual release draws near).

  Setting up a proper Python environment is not as easy on Mac OS as it is on Linux and Windows, but there's a tutorial here: http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/getting-started/running-from-source#macos

  
  
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• Roger

  November 2011 edited 3:07AM

  I've got a grant proposal and conference paper due soon so I'll look into setting up the Python environment in a couple of weeks.

  Cheers,
  Roger