Features wishlist for xfce 4.1

Don Christensen djc at cisco.com
Sat Jun 5 07:41:43 CEST 2004


Erick wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 07:55, Gerald Barre wrote:
> 
> 
>>What do you think (I mean XFCE developpers) of behaviors such
>>like this one (petition for tabs) ?
>>
>>http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.x/2004-03/0009.html
>> 
> 
> 
> As a user rather than a developer I see little use for tabs, IMHO, tabs
> should be a feature of an application (like mozilla/firefox or
> macromedia dreamweaver) to make it easier to use the application rather
> than a function of the window manager/desktop environment.   There are
> some applications where having tabs just does not make sense from a
> general usability standpoint.  But that's my opinion...

Yeah, the whole bit about making all of the app windows the same size
kinda turns me off of even trying it out.

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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