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stacey <staceyventuras@gmail.com> writes:

[Context:  Swapping the row with the selected tab to be in front.]

> This is my thesis, and i was told to do it. :S

Too bad.  Is it a central part of your thesis or just something
incidental to the program you are writing as part of it?

If this were from someone I was advising, I would be pleased if they
would present arguments for why this was a bad idea.  But I realize that
not all supervisors are that reasonable.

I think that this is a bad idea, because it makes what I feel is a
unneeded and indeed unhelpful change in the layout of the window.
Having the tab rows move around means that users can't learn, for
example, that a particular tab is in the middle of the top row.  Because
sometimes it's there, and sometimes it's in the bottom row instead.  And
that placement may be determined by a choice completely unrelated to the
tab in question.

So it seems this particular design element will reduce the efficiency of
the interface, reduce the benefits of learning to work with the software
and generally move things around on the screen to the annoyance and
possible frustration of users.  OK, it's probably not quite that bad,
but I don't see what BENEFIT you get from moving the rows of tabs.  And
I see a bunch of disadvantages.

-- 
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute

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