[bt-devel] Feature-a-thon - Tabs Within Windows

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Raoul Snyman wrote:
> This looks great, I just have one question: what would be the purpose of
> these tabs-within-windows? I'm not seeing a real use-case for it. Could you
> perhaps explain the reasoning behind your idea?

The purpose of the tabs-inside-windows is to emulate user interfaces
like The SWORD Project for Windows where there are areas for Bibles,
areas for dictionaries etc. and the user can switch between Bibles by
selecting a different Bible tab. BibleTime would be more flexible by
allowing any kind of works to be tabbed in one window.

This could be useful for example if the user wants to have one Bible and
one commentary to be open almost all the time but wants to check out
another Bible translation every now and then. If it could be in a tab
inside the same window where the other Bible is, it would be easy to
switch between the two translations.

Or the user wants to have a Bible and a commentary but every now and
then look at a map or a dictionary. They could be open in the same
window than the commentary so that the user could switch between them
when needed.

They may be other use cases we can't think of without testing it.

I understand that this is not for everyone. It may be unnecessary or too
complex to program and/or use. But it's not enough to say "I don't need
it". Of course if almost all users and developers feel they don't need
it we shouldn't implement it, so every opinion matters.

  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)