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Bug 740888 - Specify wether last tab closes the application
Specify wether last tab closes the application
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-11-29 14:26 UTC by Lasse Schuirmann
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:20 UTC
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Description Lasse Schuirmann 2014-11-29 14:26:45 UTC 
This is about the dynamic tab specification from:
https://developer.gnome.org/hig/3.14/tabs.html

Over the gnome applications we have inconsistencies regarding closing the application when the last tab is closed. Some examples:

1. Epiphany closes the application with the last tab
2. Nautilus behaves the same
3. GEdit does not close when the last tab gets closed

I think the user would expect the behaviour of epiphany and nautilus. In any case it would be nice to specify this in the HIG IMO.

In addition it would be nice to specify whether or not to show the tab bar if only one tab is open so we have consistency over all GNOME applications there too.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2015-07-17 11:26:25 UTC 
I've pushed an initial fix for this here:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/commit/?id=77bf275a2d21566546e70f0fc47460df5fc886c7

That said, I don't think that it's the role of the HIG to mandate strict compliance from all apps. There might well be good reasons for gedit to deviate from the established pattern.