Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] Witch 4.0 beta -- listing tabs

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:47:34 -0800

On Feb 9, 2017, at 3:40 PM, Tom Hundt <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The animation for it is jarring, though: You right arrow from an app, and instead of a new window appearing with the tabs listed, the main window goes away and the tabs-list window flies up into view.  Hitting left arrow makes them swap back.  Talk about disorienting!  This isn't a video game...  What I want is for the app window to remain, and the tabs list to appear to the right of the main one.  (You know, like with the Applications stack in the Dock, with Display as Stack, Content as List.)

Not possible in Witch without a total ground-up rewrite of the display engine ... and even then, it'd be problematic: On a smaller screen, there may not be room for a tab list to the left or right of the window list, depending on a user's settings. Witch 5 will probably have a different panel display architecture, but that wasn't in the works for Witch 4, so this is what we could do.

> Another option would be having a tree view available.  Not two windows -- one for apps and one for tabs -- but one, to rule them all.

You can have them in one window right now, if you set the List Tabs pop-up to show tabs as windows, they'll all appear in one window. Again, we can't do a tree view showing a parent/sub for each set of tabs in this version. But you can see them all in one window.

-rob.

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From: Tom Hundt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:40:12 -0800 (PST)

The tabs feature is a welcome addition.  I bought the upgrade immediately, 
even if I won't end up using that feature, because:

The animation for it is jarring, though: You right arrow from an app, and 
instead of a new window appearing with the tabs listed, the main window 
goes away and the tabs-list window flies up into view.  Hitting left arrow 
makes them swap back.  Talk about disorienting!  This isn't a video game... 
 What I want is for the app window to remain, and the tabs list to appear 
to the right of the main one.  (You know, like with the Applications stack 
in the Dock, with Display as Stack, Content as List.)

Another option would be having a tree view available.  Not two windows -- 
one for apps and one for tabs -- but one, to rule them all.