GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 709442
Expand tab width
Last modified: 2013-10-17 13:56:59 UTC
I think it is much nicer to make tabs expand to use the entire available width. This is consistent with our recommendations for other applications as well.
Created attachment 256491 [details] [review] Expand tabs
Created attachment 256492 [details] [review] Center tab labels
Created attachment 256493 [details] screenshot (after)
Uhm... I know that the whole tab design is a work in progress so do not take this as a hard "no", but to be honest I do not like the result very much. It is hard to articulate whether what I do not like is due to the expansion/centering proposed in this bug report and how much it is due to the new tab design, so I'll just report my general feedback Among other things 1) it is very unfamiliar to all the tabbed UIs on all major platforms 2) the close button seems just floating at random points in space 3) I find the indication of "current" tab too subtle
I guess this needs now an update?
we can try to push the centering/expand thing and see how things look... it cannot be much worse of what is there now :-( Beside my general dislike for the new look for the reasons stated above, here is a list of things that are broken with the new design: * the tabs take *a lot* more vertical space which is not only annoying with lower resolutions, but also completely broke alignment of the sidebar and the vertical centering of the label in the tab * the tabs have a weird behavior when they trigger the "scrolling mode", they suddenly become wider with a lot of space between the label and the close button * the tabs take too much space which means we trigger the scrolling mode sooner, which in turn sucks * the tabs attached at the bottom of a notebook (e.g. the sidepane pages) have the "current page" highlighting at the bottom, while I guess it should be at the top (near the notebook content) * in general the new look does not work at all for the sidepane since it is too small and hard to see
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
See though that even if this bug is closed since it is actually fixed, the comments from pbor are still there.