[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo Terminal - 0.1

[From: Aleksandr Koltsoff]

On Monday 15 August 2005 10:16, Mayank Jain wrote:
> On 8/15/05, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2005/8/15, Mayank Jain <mayank.gnu at gmail.com>:
> > I'm not following you. HildonAppViews can have unique titles, if
> > that's what you are worried about. Multiple appviews with multiple
> > tabs sounds like duplicating functionality *and* losing screen-estate.
>
> Or there can be a nice way of switching between multiple appviews,
> something managed by a small toolbar.
>
> > Disclaimer: I consider myself to be the president of "Developers
> > against tabs" foundation, so take my rants with some moderation ;)

What about the following points:
- tabs are useful when browsing the web, I've found them less useful with 
terminals (I disable them since they eat screen-estate, even if I have plenty 
of that to go around).
- having multiple views is certainly useful, however I dislike the idea of 
having a "small" toolbar to indicate them as well. Most of the time I'm not 
interested in seeing how many I have
- but, sometimes it's useful to see what the different tabs are doing

So, what I'm proposing is having an appview per session, and listing all open 
sessions (and what they're doing/current directory) in the appview menu 
(directly or in a submenu).

Besides, if not using bt-keyboard (iff it will work), the virtual keyboard 
will be eating a lot of screenestate as it is.

How does this sound? Certainly easier to implement than a small toolbar or 
having the tab-view.

ak.