Hi Rodrigo, Rodrigo Arias <rodarima@gmail.com> wrote:
I decided to leave on YES for a simple reason: the laptop I was using Dillo on didn't have a middle button, so the only way to close the tabs was to press both buttons at the same time to emulate the middle one (or the X button). So I assumed that it is possible that the same scenario happens to other people too which only use an old laptop, and they may think that the only way to close tabs is on the X button on the right, as we don't have an X over each tab.
Of course you can always change it to your preferences, but I think it is a safer default this way to be easily discovered.
Sounds fair, thanks for explaining. I guess there is no 'one size fits all' solution, but the setting is easy enough to change. I like the middle button specifically because it is harder to push, making it more difficult to close a tab by accident.
I would also prefer opening new tabs without the mouse wheel button or the keyboard. So far I can to by clicking and holding the right button, dragging a couple of pixels to the right to open in a new tab, then releasing it. I'm thinking it may be nice to make this work without the need of dragging, so by default it selects open in a new tab. We can place a threshold to not consider quick press and release events to cause the selection to be clicked.
The same may be also doable with the left button, so if you click but keep it pressed for a configurable threshold it is opened in a new tab (of the other way around).
Interesting! I like this idea and think it would be useful in various situations like limited hardware, or accessibility needs, etc. Hopefully its not too difficult to implement. Regards, Alex