GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 100970
open tab behaviour
Last modified: 2014-08-26 19:52:27 UTC
If I open a new tab by middle-clicking on a link, it is not clear where the new tab will appear among the existing ones. In Galeon 1.2 there was an option to select where the new tab will appear. I generally like it when opening a new tab, that the selected tab doesn't change to the new tab, because then I can open link without changing back to the original tab. However when opening a tab from the command line or from another application, it would be better if the new tab will be shown immediately. Also it would be nice, if galeon was minimized, to deiconify it on this request.
*** Bug 110593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 110643 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 109149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
http://bugs.debian.org/188784 also requests that the position of new tabs be configurable.
*** Bug 121186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've checked in logic so that we can, once again, force tabs to appear at the end of the row. I've also hooked this up so that an explicit new-tab request does this. There may well be other cases where this should be the preferred behaviour. Once these are established, they can be easily configured.
If I had to choose just one specific place for new tabs to appear in the list, it would be after the current tab. This naturally leads to related pages appearing grouped together, you see. Having them appear at the end of the list would be quite difficult to work with, in a long list, where the last tab wasn't visible. I could imagine many users clicking multiple times wondering why the pages aren't appearing.
Luke, I totally agree with you. Most of the time, if I had to go hunt for a new tab at a very long string of existing tabs, it would be *extremely annoying*. When the behavior changed so that the tabs were inserted, I was pleased as punch. That the tabs are appended to the tabs that eminated from the current tab is a bonus. The one use case where I would actually prefer to have the tabs append is when I want to perform a breadth-first reading of a Google search. I'll use mouse-2 to select some interesting pages. As I'm reading those pages, I'll use mouse-2 to select some interesting pages I find there, but I don't want to read those until I'm done with the original hits. In this use case, a configuration setting wouldn't be as useful as, say, C-mouse-2 (a separate command). Not only does a configuration setting not help this use case, the setting would cause a problem in the interpretation of C-mouse-2. I think it would be cleaner if mouse-2 inserted pages (as it does now) and C-mouse-2 appended them, without a configuration setting.
The reason that I do not use Galeon is because of the tab behaviour. I would be enamored to switch if new tabs showed up last in the list. Please make this an option in the preferences. Thank you for your consideration. Mike
Galeon has not seen any code changes since May 2010: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/galeon/log This project is not under active development anymore and got recently archived in GNOME Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. If you are interested in maintainership, inform https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list