[desktop-discuss] Re: Re: New Gnome terminal

[Peter Tribble]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 23:44, Shawn Walker wrote:
> That's a matter of opinion. Some people prefer
> their buttons on each tab, others prefer one
> at the far right.

Having used both, I know for sure which one I prefer.
Definitely, absolutely, not the closure on each tab.

> Regardless of whether the tab closure widget is
> on the far right or left, or on each tab, it is
> a good idea to prompt the user if we see that
> they still have background jobs running.

I have background jobs running, but they don't
get killed. Is there a way to check if they
are going to get killed, because I wouldn't want
a stupid prompt that's actually wrong.

> As long as there is a way for a user to indicate
> what they prefer, I see no problem with it.

Absolutely. I know that gnome likes to reduce
user preferences to the minimum, but there are
a couple of cases now with gnome-terminal (the
close buttons on each tab, and its handling of
PgUp/PgDn etc, where I find the default to be
plain wrong, and will either want the default
changed, it added as a preference, or I'm off
to find another desktop).

> Opera is an example of an application that uses tabs
> but lets the user indicate which behaviour they want
> in this particular scenario.

So it does. I hadn't actually realized it was a
preference I could set. Now I've removed the close
buttons from each tab I'm much happier using it.
Thanks Shawn!


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-Peter Tribble
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