Timeline for Do people really want to look at multiple windows at once?
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| Jan 3, 2013 at 17:07 | comment | added | mikebabcock | @SamHocevar I'm not sure what you're asking, but then again I'm a Linux user -- I have multiple individual windows of Chrome open simultaneously as well as a few Firefox windows sometimes. Drag and drop and copy and paste are common for me between such windows. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 14:48 | comment | added | Shauna | @SamHocevar - I'm talking about out of the box capabilities, though TXMouse looks interesting. The fact that such capability requires changing the registry either manually, or through a third party script, and the fact that it's undocumented, says a lot about Microsoft's valuation of it, though, I think. This is one of those features that is invisible to those who have it, but missed when it's taken away from them, and a revelation to those who didn't have it and stumble upon it in a different environment. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 14:14 | comment | added | sam hocevar | @Shauna There is (mediocre but usable) undocumented support for focus-follows-mouse in all versions of Windows until at least Win7 through a simple registry key. See for instance TXMouse. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 13:51 | comment | added | Shauna | @SamHocevar - Windows (even before 8) is unique in its lack of focus-follows-mouse behavior. I can't count the number of times I've accidentally scrolled the "active" window on my Win7 machine, because I'm used to the Linux/Mac focus-follows-mouse behavior. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 2:01 | comment | added | Quaternion | @SamHocevar Many people drag tabs between browser instances when they need side by side viewing, or drag a tab off the current instance to create a new instance. In this respect they have the same UI capabilities as side by side document instances (cut and paste, click to focus, etc). I would like very much like these capabilities added to the popular document editors (word, libre-office). | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 20:14 | comment | added | sam hocevar | @mikebabcock But how many browsers let you display several websites at once, each page able to get focus, potentially focus-follows-mouse, or with drag-and-drop between those pages? | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 20:14 | comment | added | Shauna | While I make full use of tabs in pretty much all of may interfaces (from terminals to web browsers, I've even added tab functionality to Windows Explorer when I'm on my work machine), I still have the easy option of making a tab a new window, so that I can view things in a more tiled mode. Likewise, my favorite code editor has the ability to lay out documents in a more grid-like fashion, if I so desire. I think the issue rises when the option to rearrange things is removed or obfuscated. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 20:02 | comment | added | mikebabcock | As a Linux user and a web user, I'd like to point out that I often have a few dozen tabs open in Chrome while I also have a few dozen terminals and other windows open across my desktops. I don't think the web has changed this -- I think the OS has. Most websites don't even lay out well when displayed full-screen. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 15:53 | history | answered | sam hocevar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |