<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:25, Allan Odgaard wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Conditional disclosure of the numbers sounds like a good idea (better than having them permanently there) -- one problem is that you use command for a lot more than switching tabs (through numbers), so these numbers would show on a lot of keyboard actions, and are likely to be a bother for most users (because part of the interface blink/flashes when using the command modifier key).</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>A slight (half-second?) delay before showing the numbers might work nicely. This way, quick key commands wouldn't cause a flash, and slower multi-modifier (Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-Shift) "chords" shouldn't make it a distraction either since we're probably just looking at our hands by that point anyway...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For those who don't like this behaviour, the preferences window still has room for one more toggle!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Andrew</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>