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Bug 720323 - fix tab styling
fix tab styling
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-12-12 13:13 UTC by Christian Persch
Modified: 2021-06-10 20:38 UTC
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Description Christian Persch 2013-12-12 13:13:19 UTC 
The new gtk+/gnome-themes-standard master's GtkNotebook styling looks atrociously bad. Need to find either a way to undo that, or switch to a new tab widget that draws real tabs.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2013-12-12 13:15:53 UTC 
Seems the change comes from bug 707922.
Comment 2 Allan Day 2014-01-09 14:18:52 UTC 
Tab styling is still work in progress. Could you explain what you don't like about it? Also, maybe file bugs against gnome-themes-standard?
Comment 3 Christian Persch 2014-01-24 16:06:17 UTC 
I think it both doesn't look good, and it has usability problems:

* The previous tabs look was familiar to users. Tabs are modelled on a real-life object: folders in a filing cabinet; and also that look is used (and continues to be used) by web browser, which are the most-often used programmes with tabs.  The new look doesn't look like this at all; there's no indication that those even *are* tabs, or that you can switch by clicking on them.

* Background tabs' tab label look like a disabled (insensitive) widget. Apart from that indicating to the user that they canNOT be clicked, it's also very hard to even *read* the text. Really, light grey background with a just slightly darker grey text‽

* The active tab indicator is now simply a dark blue line below its tab label.

* No separation between each tab. This makes it hard to see where one ends and the next starts, and to which tab the close button belongs to.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 20:38:33 UTC 
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