Bug 82440
| Summary: | Web Inspector: Consider moving tab close button to the left. | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Martin Häcker <spamfaenger> |
| Component: | Web Inspector (Deprecated) | Assignee: | Vsevolod Vlasov <vsevik> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | apavlov, bweinstein, joepeck, keishi, loislo, paulirish, pfeldman, pmuellr, rik, vsevik, yurys |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
Martin Häcker
The problem is that the close button for the tabs is to the right of their title, i.e like this:
_|jquery-1.6.js x|_|jquery-ui-1.9.js|_|...
This unfortunately means that with differently named js files (most importantly with names of different length), there is no one position in that tab bar that I can successively click to close many tabs. Which means I have to constantly reposition my mouse which is a pain.
Which in turn leads to many open tabs that clutter up the interface and get in my way navigating between source files. Which makes the whole point of the feature kind of moot.
So I'm lobbying for other ways to close those files that are easily discoverable. What seams easiest to me is to just move the close widget to the left of the name as that allows me to click the same location to close successive tabs.
Regards,
Martin
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Vsevolod Vlasov
Another way to close tabs is middle clicking on the title.
We should consider implementing context menu with "Close all" and "Close others" items also.
Paul Irish
(In reply to comment #1)
> We should consider implementing context menu with "Close all" and "Close others" items also.
Done now, yes?
Vsevolod Vlasov
Fixed in: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86292
Martin Häcker
Macs have no middle mouse button and if you don't want to close all tabs you are still screwed by this issue.
I'm not sure why you want to have the close button on the right, at least in Safari it should be on the left for consistency reasons alone (if not for the better usability).
Vsevolod Vlasov
Reopening and renaming the bug.
Pavel Feldman
> I'm not sure why you want to have the close button on the right, at least in Safari it should be on the left for consistency reasons alone (if not for the better usability).
Safari now has its own inspector. I'd suggest implementing 'Close tabs to right' instead.
Brian Burg
Closing as invalid, as this bug pertains to the old inspector UI and/or its tests.
Please file a new bug (https://www.webkit.org/new-inspector-bug) if the bug/feature/issue is still relevant to WebKit trunk.