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Bug 555753 - Open New tab on double clicking the empty area in tab space
Open New tab on double clicking the empty area in tab space
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 437653
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
: 533469 557582 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-10 03:28 UTC by lakshmanan
Modified: 2009-08-22 16:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description lakshmanan 2008-10-10 03:28:49 UTC 
target version--> gedit 2.22.3

 we have tabs in gedit. but when i double click an empty tab area, a new 'unsaved document' should open as a tab i.e. a new tab should open. this feature is not currently there in gedit 2.22.3
Comment 1 Paolo Borelli 2008-11-01 14:17:03 UTC 
*** Bug 557582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Paolo Borelli 2008-11-02 16:07:04 UTC 
*** Bug 533469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Paolo Borelli 2008-11-02 16:07:51 UTC 
For the record, I am not opposed to this, but it has to be decided/discussed at the HIG/gtk level
Comment 4 Christian Dywan 2008-11-26 11:42:22 UTC 
Have there actually been discussions? The lack of discoverability and the fact that quite enough people hit the blank space accidentally would seem to rule out anything but an optional preference that is disabled by default.
Comment 5 Isriya Paireepairit 2008-12-10 02:56:58 UTC 
I think this is the 'expected' behaviour since the users were educated from tabbed browsers (e.g. Firefox).
Comment 6 Steve Frécinaux 2008-12-10 14:35:31 UTC 
It does not exist in gnome (and firefox is *not* part of gnome, look at epiphany instead for a good example of that)
Comment 7 Isriya Paireepairit 2008-12-10 16:00:12 UTC 
Steve,

I think "not exist in gnome" is not the good reason/argument to prevent a good feature/usability to gnome.
Comment 8 Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho) 2009-08-22 09:42:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 437653 ***
Comment 9 lakshmanan 2009-08-22 14:03:26 UTC 
Like Isriya said, users expects the "new tab" to be created as soon as they see a tab feature in any software today. So, this feature can give more user interface pop as well as convenience.

It would be great if this feature is not made as an optional feature.