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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.
Suggestion for post 2.0
Reopened for investigation
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.
To be considered for 3.1....
*** Bug 37158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 108617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving Dougs bugs
I believe we are satisfied with our tab color story at present. Please reopen if you disagree.
