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__NOTOC__This is an overview of the main points that came out of | __NOTOC__This is an overview of the main points that came out of discussions about how the home and app tabs should appear: | ||
=Home Tab= | =Home Tab= | ||
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* App tabs appear on every window. | * App tabs appear on every window. | ||
* App tabs always restore on startup. | * App tabs always restore on startup. | ||
* App tabs have | * App tabs may display less chrome, or have options to do so (none, minimal or all). The default may come from the web-app. | ||
* Navigating to a new domain opens a new normal tab. | * Navigating to a new domain opens a new normal tab. | ||
* Dragging tabs to the home tab turns them into an app tab. Some kind of clever threshold will be needed to tell whether the user wanted an app-tab or just to move to the first tab. | * Dragging tabs to the home tab turns them into an app tab. Some kind of clever threshold will be needed to tell whether the user wanted an app-tab or just to move to the first tab. | ||
* Normal tabs have a context menu item to convert it to an App tab. | |||
* App tabs have a context menu to allow, among other things, removing an App tab. | |||
* Need to consider whether Cmd-W on an app tab does nothing or closes the entire window losing everything from app tabs. | * Need to consider whether Cmd-W on an app tab does nothing or closes the entire window losing everything from app tabs. | ||
* In new windows app tabs don't load their content until they are viewed. | * In new windows app tabs don't load their content until they are viewed ([https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67651/ BarTab]-like functionality). The initial state may look visually different to differentiate the two states. | ||
Note: This has implications for TabCandy, since you're more likely to activate an app tab than to move to the group it's in. | |||
=Migration= | =Migration= | ||
* If the user just had the default Firefox start page as their home page then just display the home tab. Otherwise display an app tab with chrome enabled for their home page as well as the home tab. | * If the user just had the default Firefox start page as their home page then just display the home tab. Otherwise display an app tab with chrome enabled for their home page as well as the home tab. | ||
* The bookmarks toolbar will be turned off if the user only have the default bookmarks. | * The bookmarks toolbar will be turned off if the user only have the default bookmarks. | ||