Is this for when eclipse goes to cocoa? Is 3.4 using the cocoa swt port?
On 18/06/2008, at 7:23 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>> I've been experimenting some with Eclipse's emulated tabs on OS
>>> X ... This is the tabs with an implementation of the Safari tab
>>> style:
>>
>> Not nice :(
>>
>> a) the tabs in safari are for documents, not "info panels" which is
>> what the tabs in the lower part are.
>> b) the icons are important info and the text is very hard to read
> Well, I agree, or I'd commit it :) Well, I agree with "a". I'm
> still not convinced the icons are important at all in these
> views ... I don't think OS X uses icons on tabs in any app I've ever
> seen. Granted Eclipse has way more tabs than most apps, but, to me,
> it just means that you end up with 1000 icons on the screen and they
> all just turn into visual mush. If it just said the labels, would
> it affect access time at all?
>
> OS X really has NO standard for this type of control:
>
> Current Eclipse (totally looks like Windows):
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> Safari/Terminal (only looks right hanging off the unified title bar):
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> Segmented Control (the "standard" tabs -- no close, no icon):
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> Palette tabs (no label, no close):
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> New Leopard toolbar/tabs (these aren't even really tabs, but they're
> used like tabs). No close, really big, though this style + small
> side icon/close might be sort of interesting:
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> Modo goes the "pro app" sort of style (with their own custom
> flair). I'm thinking Eclipse maybe should be in the pro-app look,
> also (given that it ... is a pro app). Modo doesn't show a close,
> but they let you drag off.
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> Motion:
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> Basically we need a tab with a label, icon, close, small vertical
> space, that can fit inside a view naturally and look like it fits
> into OS X. If anyone has seen such a beast in any OS X apps, let me
> know.
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