Workflow: Number of open tabs
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@Lycan-Thrope I can’t speak for new users in general with regard to invisible features. But any time I’m forced to try to do something on my wife’s iphone, I have to give up after 30 seconds or face the possibility of a massive heart-attack!
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@Alan-Kilborn said, “People just hate change, even when it is a change for the better, or how something should have been from the start.”
Anyone whose ever used multiple versions of Adobe’s Photoshop Elements recognizes that sentiment as Adobe’s First Commandment!
I like a more general form : People hate change for the sake of change.
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Please let people decide for themselves what is better for them and what is not.
Notepad++ is not a democracy; it’s a dictatorship. :-)
The Notepad++ author decides what is “better”.
And, he’s decided on this topic. -
@Jim-Dailey said:
People hate change for the sake of change.
The Notepad++ author does not make changes just to make changes.
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@Jim-Dailey ,
I don’t touch my wife’s phone, because as much as she doesn’t know about tech, she seems to still think she knows more than me, so I don’t even try to help her…it’s better this way…she gets to learn herself, and I don’t have to listen how things used to work until I touched it. :-) -
@Alan-Kilborn said in Workflow: Number of open tabs:
Please let people decide for themselves what is better for them and what is not.
Notepad++ is not a democracy; it’s a dictatorship. :-)
Let me rephrase: Please let people decide for themselves what they like and what not.
The Notepad++ author decides what is “better”.
Yes, that is his privilege and no one else’s.
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@Alan-Kilborn I wasn’t referring to Don. I was speaking in general.
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@Andi-Kiissel said :
Please let people decide for themselves what they like
Of course.
But there’s an understanding that you don’t always get what you like. -
@Alan-Kilborn ,
Or in those famous lyrics:You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes you just might find You get what you need—Writer(s): Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
:-)
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It appears that those that like a less-streamlined UI are about to get their dream feature:

I’ll say no more.
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