Reducing tab size

Kevin M Stange kevin at simguy.net
Sat Aug 18 04:34:28 EDT 2007


Peter Lawler wrote:
> Ka-Hing Cheung wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:27 -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
>>   
>>> http://pidgin.im/~seanegan/dancing.gif doesn't seem like a big deal to
>>>     
>> I've been away, while this doesn't seem like a big jump, it's worse when
>> your tabs are at the bottom, especially when you are typing.
>>
>> Even if you think it's a slight negative, it's a slight negative for no
>> gain.
>>
>> -khc
>>   
> My 2c...
> I thought some of these recent UI changes were to reduce UI wasted space 
> - having a blank area immediately to the right of a tab merely so that a 
> singular tab can be displayed whose information is duplicated elsewhere 
> in the UI seems rather pointless to me, and would make me think that the 
> UI design in fundamentally flawed in some respect... or maybe I'm 
> missing something vital. *shrug* Haven't really been paying much 
> attention to this thread, so I'll shurrup now.
> 

I think it was mostly Sean trying to save space, and everyone else just
trying to make sure he didn't delete something important in the process. ;)

Kevin

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