From: Earle Martin Date: 15:54 on 09 Jan 2007 Subject: Applications that shuffle tabs around when you click on them Dear $application_programmer, I'm sure you found it very satisfying when you wrote the part of your tab-handling code that makes the the tab that the user has just clicked on - in one of multiple rows of tabs - jump up to the top, and rearrange all the other tabs. However, I have to use this "feature" on a daily basis and it is moronic, as it totally fucks the little part of my brain that subconsciously keeps track of where I have to click to move between $things[1] and $things[2], and so I have to spend valuable seconds sweeping my eyes around the screen to find where that tab I just switched out of has gone to. HATE.
From: dom (Dominic Mitchell) Date: 17:17 on 09 Jan 2007 Subject: Re: Applications that shuffle tabs around when you click on them On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:54:21PM +0000, Earle Martin wrote: > Dear $application_programmer, > > I'm sure you found it very satisfying when you wrote the part of your > tab-handling code that makes the the tab that the user has just > clicked on - in one of multiple rows of tabs - jump up to the top, and > rearrange all the other tabs. However, I have to use this "feature" on > a daily basis and it is moronic, as it totally fucks the little part > of my brain that subconsciously keeps track of where I have to click > to move between $things[1] and $things[2], and so I have to spend > valuable seconds sweeping my eyes around the screen to find where that > tab I just switched out of has gone to. HATE. Hmmm, Eclipse? Not only does it randomly add and remove tabs as you open new files, but it has the killer feature of sometimes changing my selected tabs for me. It's *such* a killer feature, that sometimes Eclipse pops up in front of all my other windows on the screen to let me know that it's gratuitously changed itself in public. Keyboard focus? Nah, you don't need that... -Dom
From: Robert Rothenberg Date: 00:00 on 10 Jan 2007 Subject: Re: Applications that shuffle tabs around when you click on them On 09/01/07 15:54 Earle Martin wrote: > Dear $application_programmer, > > I'm sure you found it very satisfying when you wrote the part of your > tab-handling code that makes the the tab that the user has just > clicked on - in one of multiple rows of tabs - jump up to the top, and > rearrange all the other tabs. ... Microsoft Office preferences used to do that (Office 95 or 97). Maybe it still does, but I've not had to interact with that horrible beast for over two years.
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