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In order to make Eclipse-RCP applications look less like "Eclipse IDE", and more "native" (or just explicitly not like the IDE), it would be desirable if CTabFolder/CTab could be customized further than is currently possible. Native tabs are frequently too limited for practical purposes. On the other hand, CTabFolder/CTab miss API to do the following: 1) Customize the look of the "close" button on the tabs. The current "rounded x" is hard-coded. Many prefer a different look of this. 2) Rendering an "armed" tab in a different way is not possible: only selected tabs can be rendered differently. 3) Rendering the unselected and "unarmed" tabs using gradients. 4) Specifying different height of the selected tab compared to the unselected tabs (i.e., to achieve the same sort of behavior as exists for native tabs on Windows). In order to create tabs that look and feels more close to Firefox or Internet Explorer, it would be needed to have API to support the above.
Note: Some work for theming was started around Eclipse 3.3 and did not make it into the release. See me or Silenio before designing an API.
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