[desktop-discuss] Re: New Gnome terminal

[Ian Collins]

Calum Benson wrote:

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>>Way to easy to hit when wanting to click on a tab in a hurry.
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>In theory, that should be a minor inconvenience at most; a well-designed
>app should never lose your data with a single mis-click, it should
>always take at least two :)
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Try starting Thunderbird, Firefox and Studio from one tab, start working
on you web application in several edit windows and browser tabs, then
accidentally close the terminal tab.  I think you will then start
petitioning to remove the close button!

>In practice, one solution would be only to show the Close button on the
>front-most tab, as you're almost never going to want to click that tab
>for any other reason.  That means two clicks to close any other tab, but
>that's what you have now with the current "single close button" model
>anyway.  (The buttons on the other tabs could be disabled, or hidden, or
>perhaps shown only when they wouldn't take space away from the labels.)
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That would work for me.

Ian.