GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171538
Improve tab navigation to allow > 100 tabs
Last modified: 2005-08-19 20:16:39 UTC
i have coded two new features that improve tab navigation when there are lots of them (it is normal for me to have ~100 tabs open at the same time). finding the tab you need becomes a problem. so i have added a new dialog ("jump to tab") that lets me look up the tab by its current title (this usually includes server name). the other convenience feature i added is tab navigation history, so that previos/next tab switches to the previous/next tab actually opened, not just the preceding/following tab in the notebook. the patch i am about to attach applies to 2.7.3 (the version that ships with RedHat Enterprise Linex 3AS). i can adapt the patch to the latest cvs version if these features are to be merged.
Created attachment 39227 [details] [review] the patch the patch itself
Ey, thanks for the patch, but I think that having more than 10 tabs open is not a very common use of gnome-terminal, so I'm not sure if this new dialog is really usefull for 99% of GNOME users.
i don't aim at 100% users, but for those like me, and considering that it not that big of a change, why not have these features? to date, i haven't found a terminal that would have this out of the box. that's the reason i sat down and coded it myself :)
I'm curious, why would anyone in their right mind have 100 tabs open and how do you keep track of them all? As to the question "why not add this feature". Every feature has a cost (when it comes to ui complexity, code maintainability, etc). This cost has to be weighted against how useful the feature is for the majority of users. In this case, I'm almost certain it ain't worth it and would mark this as WONTFIX. Besides, I think the current Tabs menu item easily handles 20-30 open tabs (I'm even having a hard time imagining using that many is anywhere near common).
Yeah, I don't think this is a feature we will want to add. 100 tabs is totally overkill for any normal use case.