GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 153725
tab size is too big
Last modified: 2009-05-03 10:37:20 UTC
When maxmize epiphany window in 1024x768 screen, there are only 5 tabs were shown. After I added another tab, the program only show 4 tabs with two small scroll arrows. This make tab-browse function too hard to use.
Confirming that it's possible to go from 5 visible to 4 visible tabs, when size (5 tabs) + size (arrow buttons) > size (notebook). I think there's nothing we can do about it, though.
Mass reassigning of Epiphany bugs to epiphany-maint@b.g.o
Just wanted to post my agreement that the new tabs are too big. With epiphany 1.2 I could get many more tabs into an 800 pixel wide window than teh four I can now. Sure, as the number of tabs increased the amount of visible text in the title decreased, but it was still usually possible to determine what tabs were from the first few letters, whereas with the current system there is absolutely no way at all of knowing what tabs lie outside the visible area. There's also a lot of wasted space now - for webpages with shorter titles (e.g. "results" and "google") half the available space on the tab is now blank. Please can we revert to the previous behaviour? Many thanks!
*** Bug 162239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've made the tabs a bit smaller by default now in HEAD. The old behaviour was buggy, and it's not cleanly implementable with current gtk+ notebook API. Re comment 1: it's impossible to completely inhibit this, but it's a lot better now since tabs are smaller. Marking FIXED.
Might not want to mark it FIXED as the underlying problem isn't actually fixed, is it? The way tabs are displayed is still pretty terrible. Those left/right arrows are terrible. We need menus hanging off the right and left, or multiline tabs. There's nothing wrong with letting the bug report sit around until it gets solved properly.
That's totally unimplementable with gtknotebook API though, so if you want that you need to file a gtk bug first and drive it. Afterward you can file a new epiphany bug to make use of it.
Please see bug #581175