On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:52:40 -0400, Rob S <mr_semantics@hotmail.com> 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.
Offhand I think *that's* because we got rid of the close button for a while, and the "new instance" code went with it...
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:
...and *that's* because of some technical difference between FLTK 2.x and 1.3 (I seem to remember Dillo implementing a custom tab widget). I may be completely wrong on both points, of course, since I haven't been following dillo3 too closely.
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. 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.
I agree whole-heartedly on both points. The "bubble" tabs are kind of cute, but I'd prefer a more understated, traditional look. Cheers, ~Benjamin