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Fitts' Law to the tab bar #3510

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denilsonsa opened this issue Nov 10, 2019 · 7 comments
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Fitts' Law to the tab bar #3510

denilsonsa opened this issue Nov 10, 2019 · 7 comments
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Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Priority-3 A description (P3) Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.
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@denilsonsa
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Description of the new feature/enhancement

Currently, there are 4 pixels of distance between each of the top of the tabs and the top of the maximized window:

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According to the Fitts' Law, the time to interact with a component is a function of the distance from the mouse pointer to the component, and the area of the component. As a special case, because the computer screen is bounded, the four screen borders (and the four corners) have infinite area, making them extremely easy and fast to use.

However, the Windows Terminal (version 0.6.2951.0) places the tabs just 4 pixels away from the screen border, making it very frustrating to click (even more so because users are already used to tabs in Chrome and Firefox).

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The tabs should touch the screen border when the terminal is maximized. Just like how Chrome and Firefox also behave.


Footnote: I tried searching if this issue had been reported before, but I found nothing. This issue here should be included into #1625.

@denilsonsa denilsonsa added the Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. label Nov 10, 2019
@ghost ghost added Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting labels Nov 10, 2019
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The tabs should touch the screen border when the terminal is maximized. Just like how Chrome and Firefox also behave.

Yes please! 👍
I realized that in Firefox the distance between tab and window border is much smaller (almost no gap) then in Chrome/Edge chromium when not maximized.
Chrome/Edge chromium when not maximized is more like Windows Terminal now. Just saying. 😄

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I actually like the idea. Maybe Windows Terminal should just behave more like Chrome and Firefox.

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kfsone commented Nov 10, 2019

This is infuriating in any scenario where the top of the screen is acting as any kind of hot zone: remote desktop, hyper-v, screen capture, or [insane] people who put their task bars at the top of the screen.

Chrome non-fullscreen:
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Chrome after WM_MAXIMIZE: Note: hitbox is both rectangular and includes the tab border chrome to reach the top of the display.
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Terminal after WM_MAXIMIZE:
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Yea this makes sense to me. I could have sworn there was a dupe for this but I'm not finding it. Thanks for the write-up!

@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. and removed Issue-Feature Complex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work. labels Nov 11, 2019
@ghost ghost removed the Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements label Nov 11, 2019
@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added this to the Terminal v1.0 milestone Nov 11, 2019
@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft added the Priority-3 A description (P3) label Nov 11, 2019
@zadjii-msft zadjii-msft removed the Needs-Triage It's a new issue that the core contributor team needs to triage at the next triage meeting label Nov 11, 2019
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miniksa commented Nov 11, 2019

@cinnamon-msft is going to find where this goes. She's working on tab pixel-y things right now.

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miniksa commented Nov 11, 2019

Kayla says (now verbally in triage) that this is a /dup of #2541.

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ghost commented Nov 11, 2019

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

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@ghost ghost added the Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing. label Nov 11, 2019
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Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Priority-3 A description (P3) Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.
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