[Gossip-dev] 0.11 Feedback

[Martyn Russell]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 20:26 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:58:53PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > 1) Have Firefox-like close button. Ie. one button at the far right  
> > targeting the open tab.
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> > 2) Have the close button in the content area of the chat window. Ie,  
> > not in the tab at all.
> 
> 3) Make the presence icon change when the pointer hovers all over the
> tab, not only the presence icon (maybe adding some milliseconds of delay
> for the change, so a casual mouse move doesn't result in weird looking
> state changes).
> 
> Doesn't fix the "surprise" problem entirely, but at least it makes it
> 	more obvious that there is a "dangerous" area in the tab.

That is counter intuitive IMO. It makes the user feel like they are
going to close the tab by clicking on it.

I think the button at the far right of all the tabs (a la Firefox's
method) is the best. I will do that if people like it enough?

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Regards,
Martyn