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

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2005/8/15, Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr770 at iohazard.tts.fi>:
> 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).

My point was mainly that appviews already implement the functionality
of tabs, so using tabs that take up additional space is just silly.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi