RE: [Usability] Dynamic Workspaces

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:16, joturner wrote:

> I'm not quite sure I follow.  Is there a reference as to why tabs are not good 
> and a necessary evil?

There's some discussion about tabbed document interfaces (TDIs) here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2003-August/msg00227.html

Summary: the desktop already has a window manager, so building another
one into each application doesn't make sense.  Usual counter-argument:
most window managers don't yet give you a TDI option, so it does make
sense :)

Tabbed dialogs can have their own problems too:
http://www.uie.com/articles/tabbed_dialogs/
http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/tabs.htm

Cheeri,
Calum.

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