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Support tabs
the links in the screenshot will open a new tab in default browser, I think instead it should open it in a new app window or a new tab inside the app
I think it should be opened in a single tab. This is a personal opinion. :)
In my opinion, tab feature is very useful. When I'm working with multiple library/framework, I don't want to search across framework frequently. 1 framework per 1 tab is really useful.
Yeah, tabs is a :+1: here! I don't think it needs complicated support for framework-per-tab or whatnot, personally — just duplicate the browser behaviour:
- ⌘-T to create a new tab at the DevDocs home-screen,
- ⌘-click a link to open a particular link in a new tab,
- ⌘-W to close the current tab.
(Or whatever their Windows equivalents are.)
Oh, I found the reason why these links would be opened in your default browser: the doc for that isn't enabled 😅
- Multiple tabs per window are good. Use case: I frequently want multiple pages of the same framework open (e.g Go's
net/mail,mimeandmime/multipartpages) because I keep going from one to the other. - Multiple windows are good. Use case: I use multiple desktops, each one as a workspace for a given task. In each one I want to have documentation for the task I'm working on. Currently this is not possible.
As a long time user, I would not see this king of behavior in the application. As an user the simplicity of devdocs-desktop is really important for me. I would not transform the application into a another internet browser: this is not the job of this application.
@Spy-Seth but ”tabs” do not “another internet browser” make! It's one, relatively small, usability feature — that browsers also happen to have.
We're not asking for a Firefox-esque tab tree! 🤣
Yeah we can have a minimal design as well, if you don't create a new tab it's no different from the current design.