October 2009

Extending the Tabbles desktop to contain files

By |2009-10-09T05:47:00+01:00October 9th, 2009|English|

While finishing a major redesign of Tabbles' button layout, I had an idea which sounds important and which I would like to implement within two months.The problemCurrently, when you see Tabbles' desktop (aka "ground floor"), you are immediately reminded of the Windows desktop. Soon, however, you discover that it is more limited than the Windows desktop, because it cannot store [...]

Hierarchical tabbles? (updated)

By |2009-10-05T07:31:00+01:00October 5th, 2009|English|

These days I am puzzled whether it is a good idea to introduce a hiearchy of tabbles.The problem I am trying to solve is the following: as the number of tabbles keeps growing, how do you find the tabble you need? In other words: suppose you already have a tabble in mind. How do you find it among 200 tabbles?The [...]

September 2009

Scalable tabbles

By |2009-09-24T04:33:00+01:00September 24th, 2009|English|

Last night (well, five hours ago :P) I said that today I would have added an auto-align feature and a snap-to-grid feature. I still want to do it (if Andrea and Irma approve it), but I realized there's a complication.We are planning to make tabbles scale automatically according to the number of files they contain. (Think of an ordinary tag [...]

Future directions for Tabbles – the most pressing dilemmas

By |2009-09-22T09:56:00+01:00September 22nd, 2009|English|

Hello there, dear users! I am Maurizio, Tabbles' developer (yes, the only one so far. Hopefully this is going to change :)). After 10 months of development, I think Tabbles is now stable enough for me to be able to spend some time writing. Yes, there are bugs, and there will always be. But overall, I think I can afford [...]

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