Community
Participate
Working Groups
Build 3.0M7 In new look, a tab width is bigger when it has focus (drawing the icon + S- curve on its right edge). In presence of a number of tabs stacked together, each time a different tab is selected, all subsequent tabs are moved horizontally to readjust, and suggests that more than just a focus change did occur.
Having all tabs be the same size (active or inactive) would make total sense to me.
Changing to enhancement since this was by design. VI to consider.
This was an intentional choice by the graphic designer - the idea was to reduce clutter by not having images on all tabs.
I agree with removing the icon when loosing focus. And in the new new look (as of 20040219), it seems a bit better. I can see that the asymetrical tab looks good when on the left, but once stacked amongst others, IMHO it is not so nice. Not critical in any mean, as observed earlier.
+1 for having all tabs the same size. The editor tabs are ok with the traditional tab style active, but the view tabs keep moving (and annoying me), since the focused one still has extra space for the icon and the close button. I would suggest having the icon shown in all view tabs (and maybe draw the S-curve a bit over the next tab's icon when the new tab style is active). As for the close button, I would suggest taking it out of the tab and putting it to the right side of the tab bar, since it would be too much to reserve space for it in every view tab.
The CTabFolder supports the following combinations: 1) Have or do not have "S" on right side of selected tab 2) Always show close or only show close on selected tab 3) Always show image or only show image on selected tab The default behaviour of CTabFolder is no "S", always show close and always show image. Eclipse chooses to change from the default settings as follows: For Views: show "S", only show image and close for selected tab. For editors: show "S", show image and show close button for all tabs. The way CTabFolder is used needs to be decided by the UI team. Moving to them.
With the current settings and CTabFolder behaviour, the view and editor tabs are much more stable than before. Closing as WORKSFORME.
Nick, this is still occurring in 3.1 M2 for views. For editors, the tab width remains constant if you select workbench->appearance->Show traditional style tabs... but view widths are still shifting around.
Hmm, view tabs seem pretty stable for me using traditional tabs (on Win2K). While the selected tab does change size, only the previously selected and newly selected tabs are affected when switching. Other tabs are unaffected.
Re: comment 9 That's correct: only the previously selected and newly selected tab will change size. Any tab between the two will move toward the previously selected tab. However, that is precisely the behavior being described by this PR.
*** Bug 56492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Remy is now responsible for watching the [ViewMgmt] category.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
