Inlined.. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:

Janko wrote:

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Tabbed browsing on VisualWorks is what I found a right compromise between many browsers and tabs. See attached screenshot of my current development desktop.

There is in my opinion still a lot of potential for improvement in this UI: - the UI is extremely cluttered; - the browsers take way too much space for the menu bar, the tool bar and the status bar, leaving only 6 lines of scrolling;

+1

- an immediate improvement could be made by replacing the menu bar, tool bar and the status bar by something like a stay-on-top context-sensitive inspector;

+1: I have done precisely that..

- the color/font scheme doesn't allow one to see where current focus is and makes it difficult to see which tab is selected;

+1

- why are class names bold?

- package/bundle column isn't wide enough: AIDA is a nice short name, but the different Cloudfork-ActiveItem subpackages would be unreadable; - tabs are not used correctly: compare on the first line WebEventHandler class with Package on the next: the grey line should be removed; - the 3D effect could be removed to get a much cleaner look and more space for content;

+1

- a scrollbar could be used that allows one to see text below it; - a find box could use a shadow label inside the box (or a looking glass); - the toolbar items are context sensitive but don't grey out when not applicable; - the toolbar icons are not distinctive enough

+1 : Need to get absolutely contextual icons.. for my prototype ASAP..

Stephan Eggermont