Some suggestions on the infopane of conversation

Luke Schierer lschiere at pidgin.im
Sat Jun 30 08:33:44 EDT 2007


On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:51:01PM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> On 6/29/07, Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com> wrote:
> > One word, inconsistency.
> 
> All of Firefox, Galeon, gnome-terminal only show tabs once there are
> two. gedit always shows tabs.  Those are all the tabbed apps I have
> installed on the top of my head. Obviously, there's inconsistency,
> amongst applications, but no-tab seems to be more popular.

It also reflects a difference in functionality.  You can drag a tab out
of or into a window in none of those applications.  You can in Pidgin.
If that functionality had been implemented, I would bet that single tabs
would be much more prevelent in those applications. 

luke




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