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jonathanKingston / sea-containers

Sidebar for managing container tabs
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sea-containers/
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Ability to have more than one container panel open at the same time #1

Open jonathanKingston opened 7 years ago

jonathanKingston commented 7 years ago

In the following thread this has been asked for: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/the-window-is-the-container-the-user-groups-things-within-a-container-those-things-are-tabs/15451/4

@br0wnie

I like how that looks! Only real request I might make is for the option to have more than one dropdown open at a time.

I usually have two semi-related container types open in the same window (work and school mostly, since they are both tech related for me) that I switch between often or need quick access to. A lot of times content from one container applies to the other (something I learned from class, or something I learn for work) and being able to view all of the tabs at the same time would be cool.

Either way, just a random request. I think it looks awesome anyway!

This seems totally reasonable. However I think this should be an setting that isn't the default as I think it provides a lot more context about how containers work by making them auto collapse.

ammarnajjar commented 7 years ago

+1 for an option to activate the ability to expand/collapse more than one container at a time.

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

… I think this should be an setting that isn't the default …

Sorry, :-1:

Denying an overview is not a good default.

jonathanKingston commented 7 years ago

Having all tabs open is super noisy and requires a lot more clicks or scrolling to get to a tab within the current container.

Having multiple open also makes harder to understand containers themselves. Providing an setting to turn auto collapse off to me is completely fair. I want to train users about the current container they are in rather than it just be categories.

An overview is exactly what the count is for.

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

… all tabs open is super noisy …

True in some cases, however I'm not suggesting a default to expand all containers.