[Pharo-project] feature request - undo closed tab
Neglecting that in 6 months I might be in a position try implementing this myself, here is a feature request in case anyone likes it enough to implement it in the meantime, or who can advise why it is a bad idea. Background: For me, one of the greatest most useful features of web browsers is the "Undo Close Tab." I browse almost exclusively opening all links as new tabs since I find this the fastest to follow diversions and then return to my previous place up the stack of tabs. I can get 20 or more odd tabs in a browser window. When I'm speedily closing tabs to backtrack my position, I find my recognition of content often lags my tab closing by a split second. Being able to un-close that last tab is a lifesaver. Now that I am getting into actual programming in Pharo, I have found that from time to time I've ended up with more than a dozen tabs in the "task bar" at the bottom of World. A few times already when I've flicking through these closing them after finish a line of thought, I have accidentally closed some tabs that I wanted to keep - like the Workspace I had been using as a bit of a history log. Perhaps my workflow is bad - but I really miss being able to Undo closing that last window. Features: 1. For a window that has a tab on the "task bar" at the bottom of World, when it is closed allow it to be reopened in the same state. 2. Clicking on the "Task bar" provides a menu item "Undo Close Tab" that either: 2a. Brings back the last closed tab. 2b. Provides a "restore list" of previously closed tabs sorted by time closed, which brings back that tab. Implementation Idea: 3. When closing a tab, rather than actually closing it, the window is just minimised but is removed from the tab and placed on the "restore list". 4a. The "restore list" is a certain length and when a tab is bumped off the end it is properly closed. 4b. Alternatively tabs may remove themselves from the "restore list" after a certain timeout eg 30 minutes. I'd appreciate your thoughts... cheers, Ben
In TWM there's the concept of world snapshots, go back and forward. I've played with keeping all states history, it can be a start. If you are interested, have a look at TWMWorldSnapshot, TWMWindowSnapshot and TWMWorldRecorder. There's a demo / video here (starting from 6'20) http://magaloma.blogspot.com/2011/06/multiple-worlds-for-twm.html Cheers, Laurent On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:33 PM, <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
Neglecting that in 6 months I might be in a position try implementing this myself, here is a feature request in case anyone likes it enough to implement it in the meantime, or who can advise why it is a bad idea.
Background: For me, one of the greatest most useful features of web browsers is the "Undo Close Tab." I browse almost exclusively opening all links as new tabs since I find this the fastest to follow diversions and then return to my previous place up the stack of tabs. I can get 20 or more odd tabs in a browser window. When I'm speedily closing tabs to backtrack my position, I find my recognition of content often lags my tab closing by a split second. Being able to un-close that last tab is a lifesaver. Now that I am getting into actual programming in Pharo, I have found that from time to time I've ended up with more than a dozen tabs in the "task bar" at the bottom of World. A few times already when I've flicking through these closing them after finish a line of thought, I have accidentally closed some tabs that I wanted to keep - like the Workspace I had been using as a bit of a history log.
Perhaps my workflow is bad - but I really miss being able to Undo closing that last window.
Features: 1. For a window that has a tab on the "task bar" at the bottom of World, when it is closed allow it to be reopened in the same state. 2. Clicking on the "Task bar" provides a menu item "Undo Close Tab" that either: 2a. Brings back the last closed tab. 2b. Provides a "restore list" of previously closed tabs sorted by time closed, which brings back that tab.
Implementation Idea: 3. When closing a tab, rather than actually closing it, the window is just minimised but is removed from the tab and placed on the "restore list". 4a. The "restore list" is a certain length and when a tab is bumped off the end it is properly closed. 4b. Alternatively tabs may remove themselves from the "restore list" after a certain timeout eg 30 minutes.
I'd appreciate your thoughts... cheers, Ben
Would prefer the option of tabbed panes in a single window. The issue that you point out still remains, but mitigates to some extent while on tabbed panes as in eclipse or other ide's We could mark selected tabs and close all but selected in one go to ameliorate what u state though On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:03 PM, btc@openInWorld.com wrote:
Neglecting that in 6 months I might be in a position try implementing this myself, here is a feature request in case anyone likes it enough to implement it in the meantime, or who can advise why it is a bad idea.
Background: For me, one of the greatest most useful features of web browsers is the "Undo Close Tab." I browse almost exclusively opening all links as new tabs since I find this the fastest to follow diversions and then return to my previous place up the stack of tabs. I can get 20 or more odd tabs in a browser window. When I'm speedily closing tabs to backtrack my position, I find my recognition of content often lags my tab closing by a split second. Being able to un-close that last tab is a lifesaver. Now that I am getting into actual programming in Pharo, I have found that from time to time I've ended up with more than a dozen tabs in the "task bar" at the bottom of World. A few times already when I've flicking through these closing them after finish a line of thought, I have accidentally closed some tabs that I wanted to keep - like the Workspace I had been using as a bit of a history log.
Perhaps my workflow is bad - but I really miss being able to Undo closing that last window.
Features: 1. For a window that has a tab on the "task bar" at the bottom of World, when it is closed allow it to be reopened in the same state. 2. Clicking on the "Task bar" provides a menu item "Undo Close Tab" that either: 2a. Brings back the last closed tab. 2b. Provides a "restore list" of previously closed tabs sorted by time closed, which brings back that tab.
Implementation Idea: 3. When closing a tab, rather than actually closing it, the window is just minimised but is removed from the tab and placed on the "restore list". 4a. The "restore list" is a certain length and when a tab is bumped off the end it is properly closed. 4b. Alternatively tabs may remove themselves from the "restore list" after a certain timeout eg 30 minutes.
I'd appreciate your thoughts... cheers, Ben
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btc＠openInWorld.com -
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laurent laffont