On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 06:52:40PM -0400, Rob S wrote:
Hello all,
This evening I discovered that if I open too many tabs, the close tab 'X' at the top right of the browser gets clobbered out of sight, until I close some tabs (with CTRL-w). On the old Dillo (2.x), you could open a fair amount of tabs, and the x would never be clobbered, but instead a new instance of Dillo would start, after (I presume) a predetermined amount of tabs were opened.
Oh yes I forgot about this workaround... We had to code a custom tabs widget to have control over certain things, and it helped to make the code much simpler with fltk-1.3 too. Now we have full control of the tab widget, and have not finished coding it yet (especially the overflow case).
On another note, while fiddling with the tabs on Dillo 3 and 2.x, I got comparing the two, and I think I like the look of the old version better. I have two reasons:
1) I think the old version tabs look nicer (I realize not everyone will think like me), and more like the tabs you would see in other browsers.
Yes, this is a matter of taste. I've received some emails saying the new tabs are/look better.
2) From a practical standpoint, the old tabs seemed to behave a little nicer, in that they would adjust their size a little bit to show more of the title of the page opened in it. As it stands with Dillo 3, you can't see much of the title text before it gets an ellipsis.
Right. I added a few lines making the new tabs do this in my tree (testing now). Some users may find it useful, others not. It may be a good idea to code tab overflow handling before the release. -- Cheers Jorge.-