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

[Daniel Owens]

On 1/13/2010 3:21 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> 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)
>
>    

I think the idea is great, and I'm excited to see it implemented. 
Greater flexibility, if it is a reasonably achievable, only increases 
the number of people who will find the program useful.

Daniel