Usecase: Imagine an English assembly (or map) for translation to French.
The user wants to split the window and keep English text at bottom, and
French on top. Thus splitting the window horizontally (though I believe
the issue is relevant when using vertical splitting as well). Thus, to
begin with, there is a English assembly at bottom and a French at the
top. ASCII illustration of such a window:
|sembly-en.xml| <--Tab on top-----
Lorem ipsum
-- |horizontal split|-------------
Lorem ipsum
|sembly-fr.xml| <--Tab in bottom--
Now, when clicking the link to a topic file inside the French assembly
file, the user wants the tabs of the the french topic files to become
opened side by side with the French assembly file. That is: at the
bottom of the window. The practical benefit is that one can easily
inspect parallell files. E.g. in the above ASCII illustration, both
French and English document is visible at once. Had they both been
located at top, one could only inspect one at the time.
Current behavior: Currently, the topics open side by side with the top
tab regardless of whether they are opened from the French or the English
assembly file. Thus both English and French opens in top.
Workaround: Having become opened in the top part, one may move the
Frenchg topics to the bottom, manually. But would it not be logical if
files that get opened by double clicking a linked file inside a bottom
located tab, would also - by default - become bottom located? Assemblies
and maps can contain very many topics. Hence it is useful if one can
avoid "mousing around".
Leif Halvard Silli
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