Closed Bug 162241 Opened 22 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Implement option to have the tab bar visible at all times (don't hide the tabbar when only one website is open)

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
Tabbed Browsing
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Camino0.9

People

(Reporter: dereks, Assigned: me)

References

Details

An option in Chimera's preferences to have the tab bar visable at all times

I finding annoying when Chimera shifts up and down
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: option to have the tab bar visable at all times → [RFE] option to have the tab bar visable at all times
Summary: [RFE] option to have the tab bar visable at all times → [RFE] Implement option to have the tab bar visible at all times
pink / smfr, what do you think?
Assignee: saari → pinkerton
Component: Toolbars & Menus → Tabbed Browsing
QA Contact: winnie → sairuh
Hardware: All → Macintosh
i'd vote no.
I agree that the shifting is annoying. We could maybe have an NSUserDefautl for
this, but no visible pref.
Assignee: pinkerton → sfraser
*** Bug 166920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I agree that the tab bar appears and disappears in a clunky way, but I don't
like this being an option, since having it always displayed even when empty
wastes space. Besides that options should be avoided when the developer can
choose an optimal solution. It might be nice to have the tab bar appear in a
more graceful fashion.
Summary: [RFE] Implement option to have the tab bar visible at all times → Implement option to have the tab bar visible at all times
*** Bug 205840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
clunky, or graceful the shift will still happen. A non-visual way is just as good.
there's another reason for this pref; drag'n'drop.

normally you can drag a link onto a blank area of the tab bar to open the links
in a new tab. 
however, if there's no tab bar you can't do this.

this is something i want to do quite often.
Every other tabbed browser I know of has this an option. I'd like it for the same reasons as 
previously stated - the shifting effect, and being able to drop urls onto blank areas of the tab bar to 
opened in a new tab. When using Camino, I often hit apple-T as the first thing I do to ensure the 
tab bar is there. It would look a little ugly with the current system type tabs, but with the proposed 
new tabs it would look great.
I find that the times I am viewing a single page in window to be a tiny fraction of the time I spend 
viewing multiple tabs. I'd appreciate having this option. Put it in some "advanced" section or something, 
but it would be nice. Humans notice motion, so it's distracting to have pointless motion from a user 
experience perspective.
At the very least, we should respect browser.tabs.autohide. A GUI for the pref
can be discussed once the feature is implemented.
Adding Geoff to CC and putting it on the 1.0 list for him so he doesn't get out
of work :)
Target Milestone: --- → Camino1.0
this is a very comment request on camino-feedback. we can default to autohide
and the user can change if they desire.
Target Milestone: Camino1.0 → Camino0.9
This is almost complete once the patch for bug 262815 lands. I just need to
clean up the way the tabs draw when there's only one... that'll be easy.


Taking.
Assignee: sfraser_bugs → me
Summary: Implement option to have the tab bar visible at all times → Implement option to have the tab bar visible at all times (don't hide the tabbar when only one website is open)
hey geoff, what's the status here? do you have a patch or should someone else
start taking a look?
done.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
The close box on the last tab when this option is on should either be hidden or
cause the window to close, as closing the last tab crashes Camino!
Removing the close button would be the most obvious thing to do. a) this ensures
peole can't try and close it as showing it implicates the would be able to. b) I
think it would be just weird and "inconsistant" if trying to close a tab would
close a window en tough it's correct.

If we do this, please make sure that when removing the close button the site
icon and site title shift to the left to fill up the gap.
Thinking about it some more, if it were up to me I'd say make it semitransparent
and disable it.
(In reply to comment #17)
> The close box on the last tab when this option is on should either be hidden or
> cause the window to close, as closing the last tab crashes Camino!

Chris Lawson filed bug 291758 on this issue, with an interesting comment about
the crash log, too.
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