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Bug 607886 - Middle clicking on a tab does not close it
Middle clicking on a tab does not close it
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-23 19:51 UTC by Spreadsheet
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:20 UTC
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Description Spreadsheet 2010-01-23 19:51:28 UTC 
I found this on Linux. I was using Ubuntu 10.04 (GNOME 2.29) and gedit. The #gedit people said that this was not part of the HIG.

Steps to repeat:

1) Open an application that uses tabs and make it so that the tab bar appears.
2) Use your mouse to middle click on the center of a tab.

I tested this on Nautilus, Empathy, and gedit. None of them close the tab.

Firefox, while not a GNOME application, closes the tab when middle clicking on it. I think that GNOME applications should follow this behavior.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2010-01-23 23:07:33 UTC 
Why do you think Gnome programmes should follow firefox here, rather than the other way round?

Note that this has been rejected in every Gnome programme it's been requested so far; e.g. nautilus (bug 558889), epiphany (bug 319503, plus a few dups), gedit (bug 445402), empathy (bug 586837), galeon (bug 150581), libwnck/window list applet (bug 448036).
Comment 2 Spreadsheet 2010-01-23 23:37:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Why do you think Gnome programmes should follow firefox here, rather than the
> other way round?
> 
> Note that this has been rejected in every Gnome programme it's been requested
> so far; e.g. nautilus (bug 558889), epiphany (bug 319503, plus a few dups),
> gedit (bug 445402), empathy (bug 586837), galeon (bug 150581), libwnck/window
> list applet (bug 448036).

I see what they are saying (that scrolling is used instead). How about Ctrl-Middle to close tabs? I think that Gnome should have this behaviour because it would make closing tabs easier. There could be an option to do this. When this option is selected, large numbers of tabs won't have to have an X icon for each tab (http://i.imgur.com/7j8e2.png). Gedit doesn't make tabs smaller, and if this was to be implemented, then they could have smaller tabs when having a large number of files open (http://i.imgur.com/gGCf4.png).
Comment 3 Allan Day 2014-09-26 11:22:19 UTC 
This should be handled by GtkNotebook, or whatever replaces it.