On 16 March 2010 01:59, Cody Russell <brats...@gnome.org> wrote: > As you open new tabs, they shrink in size until it gets to a point where > they won't shrink any further. At that point the tabs on the left go > offscreen while you're adding new ones on the right. Once you've got > some offscreen notebook tabs you can mouse-wheel back and forth and it > scrolls through the notebook tabs but *without changing the selected > tab*. That's the key difference between Firefox and gtk's behavior, and > that is my particular source of annoyance with the current gtk behavior.
As a further data point here, the Mozilla people seem to have changed this recently to the current GTK+ behaviour[1]. *But* using a nightly build from a few days ago it still works as you describe so I'm not sure if the patch[2] on that bugzilla is actually doing what it seems it would do... > I'd be interested in implementing something better than what we have. > Scroll events on a notebook tab didn't really make sense to me > conceptually before, but the way the Firefox tabs are implemented it > kind of does. The big usability flaw with ours (imo, anyway) is that > scroll events actually switch the page on you. BTW, I agree with you. Changing page on scroll events feels abrupt to me. Rui [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281192 [2] http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4f3e5df9b2cd _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
