GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346314
Add alternative tabs closing order (strict right-to-left)
Last modified: 2018-06-29 21:08:52 UTC
If there are several tabs open, and the rightmost tab is closed, the focus should switch to the new rightmost tab. If a middle tab is closed, the focus should switch to the tab immediately to the right of the closed tab. If the leftmost tab is closed, the focus should switch to the new leftmost tab. Other information: This tab-closing behavior would make Gnucash consistent with all other tabbed applications that I am familiar with, including most notably Mozilla and Firefox. The current behavior (maintaining a "tab stack") is nonintuitive, at least to me, and causes me sometimes to do inefficient actions to create a new "stack order" so I can close the tabs in the desired order.
Please try gedit. Personally, the current setup is not nonintuitive to me at all, it just fits to my way of thinking and working :)
*** Bug 391090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(I was the reporter of 391090) To be honest my main reason for reporting was the lack of the close icon; however I think the bigger issue is that 'tabs' should feel the same on all Gnome apps where it makes sense. Having Firefox, gnome-terminal, gedit, gnucash all with different tab implementations makes it damn confusing for us poor users. (I keep going to click the close icon on gnucash now I got used to it in firefox). Besides - you all must have written an implementation of it when surely it should be a shared piece of code in a library somewhere (perhaps with some tweakable preferences for those who prefer tabs to work in one of a few different ways). Dave
Edit->Preferences->General->Show close button on notebook tabs
Ooh yes - thanks, that works. (Note the button looks very different from firefox/gnome-terminal/gedit).
*shrug*. Must be your setup. That's the standard themable gtk close button. I see the same button in gedit, gnome-terminal, epiphany, etc.
Created attachment 79077 [details] gnucash closeicon on ubuntu edgy gnucash closeicon on ubuntu edgy - looks truncated
Created attachment 79078 [details] gedit tab
Created attachment 79079 [details] gnome terminal tab
Created attachment 79080 [details] firefox tab
I've attached the broken tab on gnucash for me (on ubuntu edgy); for comparison I've included captures for gedit, gnome-terminal, and firefox. It's interesting to note that they are all slightly different! (except for the gnucash one that is broken).
Implemented in revision 15759. Will appear in the 2.2 alpha/beta releases.
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