Hi Rodrigo, Rodrigo Arias <rodarima@gmail.com> wrote:
This patch enables the 'tab close' button to open a new tab when middle-clicked. This allows us to open a new tab with just one click instead of two. Of course it is possible to add a separate button for this, but to prevent clutter this might be a better solution.
Thanks, but I don't like too much the idea of mixing closing and opening a tab in the same button (not a very objective argument either, I'm aware). I agree that adding a new button for opening a new tab would clutter the UI.
It seemed like the most straight-forward approach while using an existing element. This might be controversial, but what about changing the 'close tab' button to be just for opening a new tab? The close tab button is redundant, because we can just right-click (or middle-click) the tab to close it, so it's not really needed.
I was thinking in clicking the empty space after the tab to open a new one. If there is no empty space, you cannot use this shortcut, so we passively encourage you to close some tabs to always leave some space. On Firefox this is done by double clicking.
This seems reasonable, but perhaps less discoverable (I didn't know about that in Firefox until just now). In either case, I think it would be nice to have a feature like 'always show tab bar', even if there is only one tab open. Because in order to open a second tab, you would need to use another means, since that element would initially not be visible.
In any case, I seem to always use Ctrl+T for new tabs.
Sure, but by that logic we could just do away with all of the buttons, since everything can be done by keyboard. I personally feel that we should strive for maximum accessibility, which includes mouse-centric workflows. Regards, Alex