GTK and tabs

simcop2387 · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:30 am Post subject: GTK and tabs

is there anyway to get GTK2 to mimic windows with regard to 'tabs'? where it makes a 2 horizontal rows when it fills up the space horizonatlly

simcop2387 · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

sorry for the bumo i'm just curious

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

I personally think that is bad. I believe that '<' and '>' buttons to scroll through the tabs would be better.

I hated to deal with multiple rows of tabs, everytime I clicked on one, the order of the rows changes...

I don't know how GTK+2 deals with too many tabs though...

shm · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject:

No there isn't without a custom tab widget. It'd be nice to have though with something like Epiphany/galeon or xchat.

Same thing for qt apps afaik.
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Verteron · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 189

Just for reference, according to usability testing, < & > as seen occasionally in Windows and KDE is a really bad design decision. I don't know how GTK handles it since I don't ever remember seeing a GTK window with that many tabs.

eu/NEKE · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 16

It seems to me that GTK2 simply compresses the tabs until they fit. I created new tabs in my gnome-terminal until the tabs only had room for one character each on them.

I wouldn't exactly call this usable, but hey, who needs 50 tabs open at a time anyway?

As for tabbed dialogs, I have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised if the official solution is just to make the dialog big enough to fit all the tabs :wink:

dmitchell · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:57 pm Post subject: