[Gossip-dev] 0.11 Feedback

[Mikael Hallendal]

9 maj 2006 kl. 16.49 skrev Aredridel:

> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:14 +0300, Kaloian Doganov wrote:
>> 	The click-status-icon to close tab feature seems highly
>> 	counter-intuitive.
>>
>> It is also annoying.  Now it became dangerous to switch between tabs
>> using the mouse, since there is high degree of probability to hit the
>> icon and close the same tab that you want to look at.  The tabs are
>> relatively small, so you must be extra careful.

Though not much more dangerous than having a close button (except  
that you see it directly *and* the tab is wider due to the extra  
button).

> Heartily agreed. I didn't even figure out what was doing it until  
> later
> on. At least the backlog is still there when you reopen it,  
> assuming you
> remember who that was you were talking to.

Yes, this is a "when you know it it's useful" features. Comparing  
Gossip chat windows to Epiphany, Gnome-terminal, GEdit is counter  
productive. Please stop, they have the luxury of wide windows  
compared to Gossip.

Having a close button on the right hand side of the label takes up  
and wastes a lot of space and forces you to widen the chat windows  
just to compensate for lack of space due to a mostly unused button.

I think that there are two viable solutions other than the current  
(that works fine imho when you have noticed it's there and the same  
solution used by Adium in Mac OS X).

1) Have Firefox-like close button. Ie. one button at the far right  
targeting the open tab.

2) Have the close button in the content area of the chat window. Ie,  
not in the tab at all.

Best Regards,
   Mikael Hallendal