Hoary - gedit no longer open files in tabs by default

[Vincent Trouilliez]

>Well I opened a bug on this. Its bug #6829. 

I think you clicked the "commit" button a second faster than me.... I
filed that bug too, under number.... 6830 !!
Sebastien promptly marked it as duplicate of your bug... how quick.


>Maybe what we need is for gedit to have this behavior be a configurable preference, since some
>of us like it one way and some of us like the other way.
>
>A preference for this would make everybody happy :), IMHO.


Yes, adding an option or two to some applications could keep everybody
happy, instead of having to make compromises that suits neither parties.
I understand though, that Gnome needs must keep things as simple as
possible, to maintain user friendlyness and productivity. 
So I think we should have 3 levels of settings. Defaults state, for Joe
public. some options in the Edit>Preferences dialog, accessible from the
application. And some more advanced/misc. options, that would stay in
Gconf and not visible from the preferences menu, but should be document
in the help file of the relevant application, not "hidden", waiting to
be discovered by someone that spends 24 hours a day on said application.

This way, I think Gnome could be perfect. Offering good default for most
people, whislt retaining maximum flexibility so that more advanced users
can fine tune things in whatever way makes most sense for them.

I hope we can get to this point with Gnome, because so far it's more
like try this feature, then remove it, then put it back, etc (mostly
thing volume mixer here), which wastes time in constant redesign yet us
bound to always make someone unhappy.

Okay, I'll get off my soap box now... ;-)

Vince, sometimes thinking of integrating the usability team... ;o)