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In certain perspectives, it makes sense to have a fairly small editor window. Unfortunately, when you also want a fair number of tabs, you end up not seeing much of the filename, as the icons take up so much of the space. Could we have a preference for whether or not to include the icons in the editor tabs? I can't say I often look at them, and they're *usually* all the same (as people tend to edit files of the same type in one session). Admittedly the benefit of this change would be reduced if other feature requests such as allowing multiple rows of tabs or tabs down the side are implemented, but it might still be worth doing (and I'd imagine it's easy to do...)
The following bugs are all related to the same issue: Bug 20626 Bug 21968 Bug 22716 Bug 25165 Can the priority of this issue be increased?
Even though we did not change the priority on this bug report, we are working on it. We don't have a solution for it yet.
Eclipse 20021203 introduced a new editor management strategy, a view was introduced (window>show view>other>basic>editors) as well as a menu pulldown on the far right side of the tab bar. In addition you can specify the amount of compression your tabs take (window>preferences>workbench>editors). With these new features do you still believe an option should be provided to remove the icon from the tabs?
I haven't looked at the new features yet, but I don't think they'll remove the "niceness" of the ability to remove icons. The fact still remains that the icons do no good but *do* take up filename real-estate in many (but not all) situations. Having the option to remove them seems to be a purely good thing with no drawbacks other than the obvious one of development time. Possibly the new features would make it worth pushing back to after 2.1, but I'd still like to see it at some stage :)
The system menu would be lost if we did not display the icon, left click over the icon. This menu is required for accessiblity.
I wouldn't dream of suggesting it should be removed totally, or even by default - just have an option. Then those who need the icon for accessibility reasons can have it, and those who don't can see more of the filename :)
There are no plans for the UI team to work on this defect until higher priority items are addressed. If you would like to work on a fix for this enhancement, please let us know on the platform-ui-dev mailing list.
I've come up with a fix. I don't know how elegant it is, I'm afraid, being pretty unfamiliar with the Eclipse sources. There's also at least one important TODO in there: namely that the preference text isn't fetched from the resource bundle at the moment, merely 'cos I couldn't find that resource bundle! The appropriate line of code is present and waiting to be commented in (and the current one commented out) if someone could also do the text in the resource bundle. I'm obviously not expecting this to get into 2.1 at this stage, but if it were to get into 2.2 in some form or other, I'd be very happy :) In a minute I'll attach my versions of EditorPreferencePage, IPreferenceStoreConstants and EditorWorkbook, so people can give this a go if they'd like. There aren't many changes between these and M5, but I see things have changed since M5, and I'd rather not try to guess as to what to do. If you'd like me to work with a newer build and try to patch that and submit the patches, let me know which build etc.
Created attachment 3465 [details] Version of M5 EditorWorkbook which allows editors to not show icons
Created attachment 3466 [details] Version of M5 IPreferenceConstants which allows editors to not show icons
Created attachment 3467 [details] Version of M5 EditorsPreferencePage which allows editors to not show icons
Another "to-do" with my current implementation: the default would have to be true, not false, in order to leave current behaviour - and I don't know how to do that, I'm afraid :(
*** Bug 15826 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Currently there are two modes in the editor tab management, one for multiple and one for a single tabbed editor workbook this should answer the needs here. Removing the icons removes important informational cues (such as errors) and not just the type of editor being used, however I believe the current support still supplies the needed features mentioned here, i.e. see more of the name of a file being edited even with a fair number of editors open marking as fixed
No, the current support *doesn't* fix the need. The icon still takes up room for a purpose which I for one don't want it to. There are plenty of other ways I can see which files have errors in, for instance. I don't want it taking up that valuable real estate at the top of the page. See bug 36008 for a patch which optionally removes the icon, leaving it on by default.
