Re: Re: [wmii] sh flame with Uriel

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:28:34PM +0100, Tube wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:32:54PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:19:33PM +0100, Bartosz Trudnowski wrote:
> > > I think we should drop 9base. And tabs ARE useful in some situations.
> >
> > For the case of tabs, we now have a stacking feature in columns:
> > http://www.wmii.de/shots/20060228.png
>
> sorry, garbeam - that really looks disgusting!

If you got a tabbed frame with 10 clients attached all having a
title like 'tube_AT_localhost.foo.bar: /home/tube/projects/..' you
won't be able to decide for a specific client, you even would
need to cycle through all tabs all the time to pick up a
specific one (simply because the bar would look like:
| tu.. | tu.. | tu.. | tu.. | tu.. | ...).

Stacks of tagbars scale much better than tabs and they don't
need an additional navigation layer. The space which is wasted
for stacking is pretty minimal, though it consumes somewhat more
space than tabbing. All in all stacking sucks less than tabbing
if you can create new pages dynamically, which provide arbitrary
space if the space gets unhandy in a column.

Regards,

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