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Showing the 'X' close button only when an inactive editor tab is moused over makes it harder/slower to close an inactive tab and easier to accidently close a tab instead of switching to it. Keep the 'X' close button visible on all editor tabs. Safari on the Mac, for example, handles the tab close buttons this way.
Views also have this behaviour.
Is this still a problem in 3.3? PW
I don't understand why this and the similar (52435) are closed as if not important. I know there are many who find this issue time consuming, and some have lost work because of it. Just make the other X grayed out rather than invisible, please. See discussion today (2007-06-18) in newsgroup eclipse.newcomer Subject: 'X' in tab disappears; bad design!
(In reply to comment #3) > I don't understand why this and the similar (52435) are closed as if not > important. I know there are many who find this issue time consuming, and some > have lost work because of it. Just make the other X grayed out rather than > invisible, please. This is closed because no one is working on it. bug 52435 is closed because they fixed it for view stacks. I'll consider patches if anyone has one. PW
Changes requested on bug 193523
Does CTabFolder actually have public API to show the close button on the unselected tabs?
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.
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. As such, we're closing this bug. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. 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. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.