[haiku-development] Re: Suggestion for Stack and Tile
- From: Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:25:19 +0100
Clemens Zeidler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just doing some refactoring on the stack and tile code and going
> through the ToDo list Axel wrote a while ago *). I think while doing so,
> it is a good idea to have in mind what other people think about SAT. I'
> mean, what are your ideas how SAT could be more usable and tighter
> integrate into Haiku?
Glad you're looking into it Clemens!
One problem that needs solving is how to cope with very large numbers of
windows. Tabbed browser type interfaces either have a widget at the end
to display a menu of those tabs that don't fit, or to move the tab view
left and right.
I wonder about whether Tiling is really useful. It's nice to see in
demos, but maybe Windows 7 got it right here - that comparing things
side-by-side in fullscreen is the hugely dominant use-case for this.
The other interface to consider is something similar to Chrome's title
bar. I don't like it in Chrome as it goes against the usual windows
standard interface, but it might work quite well when applied to the
whole OS. ASCII art time:
---------------------------
| ___ _____________ ___ |
| |X| /Single Window\ |Z| |
-------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------
| ___ __________ __________ |
| |X| /Document 1\ /Document 2\ |Z| |
-------------------------------------------------------
So the decorators work pretty much unchanged, but the "window title"
area becomes tabbed. These can get dragged off to form new windows and
when space is short a drop-down menu widget can be added.
Simon
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