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I really like the examples on the link you included here, Mirek. I can
see how useful those would be for users of office apps. Something
similar has been implemented within the MS Office Suite for OSX (I use
it at work) and it's a good idea.

Also, good work to the Gnome team for including shots of IE 10 in the
Metro style. Metro is something we should seriously be anticipating as
we work to bring more and more MSOffice folks to LibreOffice.

- sd

On 3/21/2012 3:21 AM, Mirek M. wrote:
Hi Maggie,
Thanks for the proposal.
One of the reasons why office suites in general have been hesitant to
support tabs is because it's not really meant for that workflow -- a user
is likely to work on one or two documents at a time or two documents
side-by-side, and it's a waste of memory to open a large number of
documents and only use one of them.
Rather than using tabs, I would love to implement something along the lines
of the Gnome Overview [1], which is going to replace tabs in Epiphany. It
makes getting to any document simple, especially simple for recent
documents, but also lets you focus on the current document.

That said, I wouldn't be opposed to having tabs in LibreOffice as long as:
- the tab bar is hidden by default, only shown when you have 2 tabs or more
- the tab bar appears as part of or just below the title bar (like Chrome),
able to contain tabs from any LibreOffice module
- there is no tab management -- the user just shouldn't have many tabs open
(he can't work on 12 documents at once); not even Chrome manages multiple
tabs
- tabs are always docked on top -- if they could be docked anywhere, it
would be an unnecessary complication for both developers and UI designers
and wouldn't really provide much advantage to the user. I'll bring up
Chrome again -- it experimented with side tabs, but dropped the feature
because it wasn't working well enough. But since people are not going to
have 20 LibreOffice tabs open, we really don't need a tab sidebar.

[1] https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Web

2012/3/21 King Duck <rotteneogat@gmail.com>

Hello everyone. I have been working on a simple mockup for tabs in
LibreOffice. I checked some past suggestions in Bugzilla for tabs in LO. LO
and Office 2007 (along with 2010) have support for tabs but only with
add-ons. I think that implementing tabs into LO would help attract more
users. The convenience of having multiple tabs in one window instead of
having to shift between several separate windows is a feature which I feel
would be appreciated by many users. I have used Office Tabs and despite it
being rather limited it improved my user experience with Office 2007 by
allowing me to easily shift between several documents.

Some potential ideas:

* Tab positioning
_ Positions tabs at the top, bottom, left, or right of the page; controlled
according to what the user wants

Pro: Tab position is left in control of the user so that zie can show zir's
tabs in location most convenient to user
Con: Could potentially overshadow panels (if implemented)

* List tabs button
_ Shows all tabs which are open in the current application; Useful for when
4+ tabs (at least) are in use

Pro: Multiple tabs easily seen by user without having to take up too much
screen space
Con: Tab list could end up excessively long and require scrolling on part
of user

*Sort tab order
_ Order of tabs controlled by mouse (click-and-drag), touch
(touch-and-drag), or keyboard command

Pro: Tab order easily shifted around by user at zir's convenience
Con: Not sure how to implement for visually impaired users

Later on this week I'll do a mockup using the Citrus UI images. Any
feedback is much appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzbVEiGiz0dnS3paaHMzeEtUUU96aFZWMVBoMzFnUQ

~ Maggie

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