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Bug 300537 - new tab is not visible when ctrl-clicking link from the rightmost tab
new tab is not visible when ctrl-clicking link from the rightmost tab
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167693
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Tabs
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
: 419823 524065 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 167693
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-13 18:40 UTC by Maxim Krikun
Modified: 2012-10-07 04:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Maxim Krikun 2005-04-13 18:40:46 UTC 
Version details: 1.6.0
Distribution/Version: Slackware 10-current /  FreeRock Gnome 1.99

Open multiple tabs (5 on 1024x768 resolution), so that the leftmost one becomes
invisible;
go to the righmost tab and ctrl-click a link (or do "open link in new tab").

The link is loaded in background, but the tab is not visible until you scroll
the tab bar right (with Ctrl+PgDn or a button in the tab bar); thus the user can
see no changes in the browser window

Suggestion: when opening new tab always scroll the tab bar so that the new tab
is visible
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-04-13 18:59:23 UTC 
Related to bug 153792; setting severity to Enhancement.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2005-05-29 20:35:38 UTC 
Needs gtk+ API to scroll the area of shown notebook tabs.
Comment 3 Kristoffer Lundén 2005-10-22 22:55:08 UTC 
I don't want my tabs list to scroll away, I want to be able to see all my tabs
at the same time. A better solution for me would be to shrink tabs, perhaps in a
smart way, removing common words as mentioned in bug 153792.
Comment 4 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2007-10-03 05:58:49 UTC 
The option would be to set the notebook "homogeneous" property to TRUE. Don't know if this is ok with the HIG or ephy's model, but I like expanding tabs better than fixed size ones. I hate the GTK+ notebook scroll.
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-10-03 07:15:16 UTC 
*** Bug 419823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-10-03 07:16:27 UTC 
Adding Gtk+ bug #167693 as a blocker.
Comment 7 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-03-25 10:23:15 UTC 
*** Bug 524065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Stuart Langridge 2008-03-25 10:38:24 UTC 
Note that scrolling won't always work; if you're in the leftmost tab then it's not possible to show both leftmost tab (that you're in) and rightmost tab (that has just been created). If scrolling will work sometimes and not others then there will need to be another solution invented anyway, so it might be best to use this solution all the time. I suggest flashing the tab bar scroll-right icon a couple of times to show that there's something there to scroll to. (Firefox solves the problem this way.)
Comment 9 Luca Bruno 2008-09-27 19:23:53 UTC 
For what concerns the HIG, gnome-terminal shrinks the tabs. I really hate the "arrows" stuff, in fact everytime I have to open more than 5 tabs I either open a new window or spend time closing the others.
Comment 10 Erland 2009-09-26 20:21:37 UTC 
Would really love to see this fixed (whatever the solution) - it's really confusing behaviour (or lack thereof).
Comment 11 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-10-07 04:26:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167693 ***