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

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Raoul Snyman wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 23:21:42 Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Please excuse my ignorance, but I still don't see what a tab within a window
> has over another new window. Even in the cases you mentioned, there's no
> reason for a new tab in the same window...

To save space. The second window is "hidden" behind the first one so it
doesn't take extra space until it's needed.

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