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Summary: | New Editor Tab design is slower and has serious usability issues | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | lordpixel <lordpixel> |
Component: | Window System | Assignee: | Stanislav Aubrecht <saubrecht> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | dpavlica, issues, jdinga, mihmax |
Priority: | P3 | Keywords: | PERFORMANCE, UI |
Version: | 3.x | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 50354 |
Description
lordpixel
2004-03-12 21:41:21 UTC
Passing to Dusan and Jano for evaluation, IMO this is more enhancement suggestions then defect, but anyway. ping ;-) it's one of the issues found also in Russian-speaking community to be the most annoying. Of course, having -J-Dnetbeans.winsys.oldtabs=true helps, but it's more of a hack, not an easily tweakable, and not advertised much ;-) I agree with the most points brought up in this issue by lordpixel. The thing is that this wasn't a priority in past releases. We will try to plan for it for release after 5.0. I can see 2 solutions: - bring the regular (multi-row) tabs back as an option in the options dialog - this should be fairly easy - design completely new tab behavior taking into account lordpixel's comments - this would require much more effort. Anyway this is not a defect. Chaning to enhancement. Re-reading what I wrote a year and a half ago, I still feel most of the points are reasonable. Over that time, through Netbeans 4 and 5 I have changed by habits from what I used to do in 3.X. I no longer tend to hunt around scrolling in the tab control for a particular tab. I pretty much go straight to the dropdown tab menu to find tabs. This means in a sense, we're back to the bad old days of the "Window" menu having all of the open files in it as in something like Visual Cafe. I think I've subconciously more or less given up on the tab control, because it's never regained the access speed advantage it has in 3.X. I actually think being able to move the tabs to the left or right side of the window is probably the best balance of simplicity and ease of use. Part of the reasoning for this is many people still wrap their code at 80 or 100 chars, and 99% of computer screens are wider than they are tall. This means horizontal space is at less of a premium that vertical. This it's quite likely that a user can afford the space down the side of the editor window (assuming they've minimized the Navigator, Project, Runtime and Files views) I'm not claiming there's a simple answer here. Providing usability when developers have 10, 20 or 30 files open is hard - but if it can be solved it'd be very worthwhile. Editor tabs in 7.4 are very customizable to address your issues. |