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Re: Two GTK related feature requests
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Two GTK related feature requests |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:03:58 -0500 |
One thing that people seem to do is to implement scrolling, of sorts.
It looks like this (assuming only two buffers are shown):
________ ________
/buffer 3\/buffer 4\[<][>]
Then you can click on [<] to show buffers 2 and 3, and on [>] to show
buffers 4 and 5 in the tab bar. Or so, maybe the arrows scroll by
more than one buffer.
I think that's a good partial solution.
Another thing that people seem to do is to shorten long buffer names,
so that they display "som...ame" instead of "some long buffer name".
I think that's a good partial solution.
Whether these two partial solutions are enough for real usage,
I can't guess in advance.
A third thing, which is an alternative to the first thing, is that
they just show multiple rows of buffer tabs. My coworker, using the
NetBeans Java IDE, always has 4 or 5 rows of buffer tabs below the
editing area. He always uses the mouse to select one of them, and he
seems to remember them by position: they are not sorted in any obvious
order, at least afaict they are not sorted alphabetically. In case he
forgets the position of one of the tabs, he scans all of them
visually. Amazing.
This is fine except I wonder if it would use up too much of the screen
height.