On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:

Regarding a tab based environment, Dolphin X6 also included that in a concept called "Idea Space", you can open as many idea spaces as you want, and as you browse classes, inspect objects or look for references, all the usual new windows will open inside the idea space where the command was issued. There also was the option to save the open tabs, to restore them later. And you could move between tabs using only the keyboard; in fact you could do everything without a mouse.

For the record, I find tabs to be almost as much of a UI dead-end as myriad windows. They are often incompatible with the need to see several things at once, and they become unmanageable past a dozen or so.

Personally I prefer environments where the number of windows/tabs/buffers is a non-issue, something managed by the environment. All I care about is:

a) Navigating back and forth between the thing I'm looking at now and the last ~10 things I looked at; and

b) Quickly finding and foregrounding new things by whatever searchable aspect I can remember about them.

GTSpotter has a "history" category (not that I've used it so far, perhaps time to try).

It might be an interesting experiment for GTSpotter to have an "open window" category.

cheers -ben