Bug 19812

Summary:	[EditorMgmt] tabs: Paint titles of defocused editors with different pastels
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Eric Nickell <nickell>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Kim Horne <eclipse>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	ladyslipper98201, mike.goodwin
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	investigate
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Eric Nickell

2002-06-10 12:49:22 EDT

Feature request:

Provide an option in Preferences/Workbench/Editor which if checked, causes the
background color of the title bars of editors which are not currently in use to
be painted with a pastel color rather than the current gray.  The pastel is one
of ~10 and is selected on the basis of a hashcode of the text in the titlebar.

Has the following positive UI benefit:
 -- User glancing at the titles of open editors can still distinguish the active
editor from non-active (saturated blue vs unsaturated colors).
 -- Users will learn to associate certain colors with certain files, making it
easier to find.  This will pay off both for short term situations and long term.

Comment 1 Eric Nickell

2002-06-10 12:49:51 EDT

Suggestion for post 2.0

Comment 2 Randy Giffen

2002-08-12 10:52:30 EDT

Reopened for investigation

Comment 3 Eric Nickell

2002-08-19 15:48:11 EDT

Additional variation:

If there are more files open for editing than have their tabs displayed in the
editor, *and* if this colorized background is enabled, *and* the tabs which are
being displayed don't need to completely fill the space alloted for the tabs,
*then* ...

Created additional tabs, allocated more or less equally to the left and right of
the tabs displayed, which contain no text, but only contain the background
pastel of the corresponding file.

I suspect that this may enable a user to have a larger number of files open and
still be able to switch to the desired tab quickly.  It also provides an
alternate way to move left and right in the list of open but untabbed files,
i.e. by selecting a micro-tabbed file.

Comment 4 Douglas Pollock

2004-09-28 11:48:52 EDT

To be considered for 3.1....

Comment 5 Douglas Pollock

2004-09-28 12:01:29 EDT

*** Bug 37158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Douglas Pollock

2005-09-01 14:51:23 EDT

*** Bug 108617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Michael Van Meekeren

2006-04-21 13:19:38 EDT

Moving Dougs bugs

Comment 8 Kim Horne

2007-02-02 13:31:55 EST

I believe we are satisfied with our tab color story at present.  Please reopen if you disagree.