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Subject: | Re: Action Button in Display Builder |
From: | Maren Purves <[email protected]> |
To: | [email protected] |
Date: | Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:18:24 -1000 |
On 09/18/17 02:59, Kasemir, Kay wrote:
It's generally best to not use the "Open in new window", "Open in new tab" option at all. Just as with a web browser, opening new pages is often not helpful, it just leads to a cluttered sceen. In fact some web browsers consider "popups" a virus and disable them by default. Just leave the default options, so a new display replaces the original display, and users can use back/forward to navigate back & forth. If users really, at one time, need to open a display as a new display, they can do that via the context menu or by holding Ctrl and/or Shift when clicking the button, again similar to a web browser where ctrl-click on a link opens that link as a separate tab.
People in operations quite often want to see everything at the same time. Yes, you may run into real estate problems (I do even on 3 monitors), but having information at hand is more important than screen aesthetics when you're running things. Replacing the status of e.g. the secondary mirror of a telescope with weather information that you also need to look at isn't an option (not to mention status of telescope and instruments). Maren