Re: [PATCH] faster tab scrolling for large number of channel tabs

[Peter Zelezny <zed@xchat.org>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:12:59 -0400 (EDT)
poing <poing@mdma.ath.cx> wrote:

> I submitted this little patch for 2.0.2 and received no responses so I'm
> submitting it again for 2.0.3 with [PATCH] in the subject this time...
> 
> 
> I use xchat 2.0.2 on linux and have up to 40 channels open.
> Whether I have the tabs at the top or at the left, selecting the first
> tab if you're currently on the last one requires something like 10
> clicks on the up-arrow to shift the tabs downwards one-by-one.
> 
> This is very slow, cumbersome and unergonomic. What is the point in making
> the tabs scroll smoothly and slowly one-by-one instead of scrolling in
> screenfuls or at least half-screenfuls?
> 
> I made the simple patch below which simply makes the arrows scroll to the
> beginning or to the end of the tab list. This has the problem that you
> would skip over tabs in the middle if you have more than 2 whole
> screenfuls.

This would need to be fixed first, we can't introduce new bugs.


> I would suggest that the developers dump the current arrow
> behaviour and make the tab list scroll instantly in screenfuls, rather
> than slowly box-by-box.

Not a problem with me, but this patch doesn't do that?


> Alternatively, make it possible to display more
> than one row of tabs at a time.

There are probably not enough willing developers around to do that.


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Peter Zelezny.
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