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(Post 2.0 thoughts) When you have a lot of editors open, the tabs get shrunk down to the point where you generally cannot differentiate the tabs unless you wait for the hover help. This is because only a a few characters of label text remain visible. It would be interesting to investigate not showing the editor tab icons when reaching minimum tab sizing. When space is at a premium, giving priority to the text would provide more unique information than showing the icons which convey very little information, especially in the common cases where they're all the same file type (eg. all java files). This would reclaim about 3 characters based on the fonts etc. I am using. This leaves the problem though of what to do with the error decorator which normally decorates the tab icon.
The icon is important for error decorations, and JDT relies on this behaviour to minimize the use of the task list. It is particularly useful in the Java Browsing perspective. I suspect that having distinguishing icons is more important for other products with many types of editors, e.g. WSAD. However, the space lost to icons in the editor tabs is significant. Should reconsider for v3.
Reopen for investigation
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25165 ***
