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Hm, not sure how that could be helpful. Just install the module, create a new Mini Panel, select the Tabs Panel Style, and off you go!

... but perhaps that *is* what I should document. Let me know if this is what's unclear to you.

My tabs do not seem to DO anything, in Safari Beta 3 or in Firefox for Mac.
I'll try switching from fade to slide.
My impression was that the instead of seeing (in my case) a vertical list of 3 mini panels. I would see 3 tabs at the top, and one mini-panel showing. And if I clicked one of the other two tabs, the mini that was showing would disappear and be replaced by the one I clicked. Am I wrong about the intended function? or do i not have it working correctly?

I'm sorry to be asking so many questions of you! But I am really grateful for your work on this and am happy to continue testing it.

The browsers I've used to test this are Safari 3 and Firefox 2, so that definitely works.

I'm not sure what you mean by "fade" or "slide", these are not options that are available.

The functionality you describe is indeed what you could expect.

Note that for this module to work, you will need Panels 2 + the Mini Panels patch, which should be committed soon.

admin/settings/tabs certainly does have options for "Slide effect" "Fade effect" and "Effect speed."

These settings are I believe for the javascript Tabs wherever they are used. Should they not also effect the Tabs you've created for Panels?

Per your comment on http://drupal.org/node/160392 I'll re-design my mini panel so that I have one mini panel with three panes rather than three separate mini panels and see how that affects the functionality of the tabs...

admin/settings/tabs doesn't work for me. Perhaps you're using the latest dev version?

I'm using Javascript Tools 5.x-0.8 which was just posted 2 days ago.

I hadn't updated to 0.8 yet. Sorry for the confusion. I saw at the other issue that you had solved your problem, so I'm marking this issue as fixed.