[OU] "Tab layout settings, O 9.64"

[Malcolm Austen]

On Sun, 17 May 2009 13:35:48 +0100, Mitchell Marks <mitch at cuip.net> wrote:

> 1) The main thing is that when I open a New Tab, it currently opens
> as maximized to fill the whole outer Opera program Window. I would
> prefer to have New Tab internal windows open as midsize, internal
> floating wndows. Is there a setting available to change this defalt?
> Or some special way I should be creating that new tab window?

Do none of the "Additional Tab Settings" in Prefs > Tabs suit? I always go  
for maximised tabs so have not experimented.

> 2) After opening a new tab window, which fills the whole outer opera
> window, I want to "restore" it to a normal size and free-floating.

Right click on a tab and click Restore?

> 3) And Cascade isn't doing a very good job of choosing a new layout.
> Some of the smaller Tab windows end up wth their titlebar up outside
> the boundaries of the main Opera program window, and I can't evengrab
> them for manual rearrangement without doing a Tile.

I so rarely cascade or tile that I'll pass on this.

> 4) Are "New Window" and "New Tab" supposed to do the same thing,or
> different? I seem to recall inprevous versions, at least, that New
> Window would make a new instance of the whole heavyweight Opera
> program window (maybe with a single new tab subwindow opening within
> it). Is that still the expected behavior of New Window? I instead get
> a new internal Tab window within the cntinuing single outer Opera
> program window. Could there be a setting I've messed up, or a way I'm
> doing that wrong?

Additional Tab Settings has a tick-box to force NewTab to open a new  
window but I don't know of an option to make NewWindow act as new tab.

> Thanks much for any help you can offer! (Don't hesitate to post
> solutions which involve popping some text into one of Opera's .ini  
> files. )

I'll leave that for others :)

Malcolm.

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