• Although this is not a big issue for me, since I close the tabs by 2-click, I guess that only three entries can't satisfy all cases, and that a too simplified wording is not meaningful.
- The room is not a problem for a menu, and anyway the strings will be longer in the most other languages…
- Close —> Could be enough for the active file-tab, like currently. But in Total Commander for the same case we have :
"Close this tab".
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- Close the others—> Closes all other tabs, except the browser if present.
- Close all file-tabs —> Closes the active tab and all other file-tabs (no matter the file-type)
- Close ALL —> Closes all tabs really, including the tab of the browser.
- Just my 0.02 €…
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Claude
Clo
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helmut wrote:I still disagree.
Why is "Close other" hard to understand? "Close all except ..." sounds like "Do this, but do not that". That's confusing.
- Sorry, but "Close other" means nothing for me. Other what ? Another (tab) ? Which one ? Others ? Wich others ?
- This is coal juice for the most “lambda” users…
- Like I said, I don't care that personally, and it is easier to get a better wording in other languages, I guess.
- But that you propose is not satisfactory from my point of view…
G.
Claude
Clo
Old user ON SELECTIVE STRIKE till further notice •
Close
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Close all
Close all - keep current
Close all - keep browser
Close all - show list
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Hide from close all
JohnFredC wrote:
Close
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Close all
Close all - keep current
Close all - keep browser
Close all - show list
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Hide from close all
Good to have a native speaker around. In your suggestions "Close all - keep current and browser" might be missing.
What are the menu items "Close all - show list" and "Hide from close all" are good for?
helmut wrote:I've just looked in Eclipse, the well-known and excellent programming environment. There it says:
Close
Close Others
Close All
This might be better and correct English (as mentioned by Clo).
All your suggestions are good, but I think that things are clear enough.
No! The problem is BROWSER. When there are just browser and 1 view tab opened and user choose "close all", just 1 tab will be closed, that's incorrect and therefore might be confusing.
"Show list" is a sort of hidden feature request I attempted to foist on the thread... a dialog would popup listing all windows and allow the user to select the ones to close. A bell & whistle only.
Hide from close all
A toggle to "lock" the tab from which this option was selected. For instance, one could select "Hide from close all" from the browser's tab... then, any subsequent "Close all" would ignore the browser tab. It would work equally well to prevent specific views from closing.
Perhaps if a tab was "Hide from close all", a symbol such as an asterisk could also appear in the tab caption.
The special case just mentioned by Dreamer (involving the browser and a single view) could be handled by "Hide from close all". I personally would almost never close the browser and would like to permanently "pin" it... "Hide from close all" performs that function.
I thought at first that "Lock this tab" would be more intuitive, except: what would "lock" mean?
By the way, these are not my ideas, but rather common options in the tabbed browsers I use: NetCaptor, Maxthon, etc. I have found them intuitive and useful.
I just included the "Keep browser" option because it made sense in XNView's interface.
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