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By adding icons to tabs (on views within a group), eclipse got prettier, but it also ate up some real-estate. I used to be able to fit 4 views in a group before they got pushed off to a menu, but now I can only fit 3 in some cases. This is because the active tab displays the icon. I would suggest some customization capability to allow a selection of one of these options 1) show only icons 2) show only label 3) show both 4) show both on active 5) show only icons, with both for active 6) instead of minimizing tabs to a menu, first try putting just icons Where I personally would use either 5 or 6 because Eclipse is much more usable when I can see all my tabs rather than just 3-4 and using option 5 or 6 would make many tabs visible.
FYI, the component examples plugin contains an experimental presentation with this feature.
I own the code but not the look & feel. Moving to MvM to pass along to the usability folks.
Created attachment 28311 [details] View Tab for "JUnit" Screen Shot of JUnit Tab
Another thing I'd like to add to this is that When you have a number of views docked together, you don't open and close those views very often. That's kind of the point of docking them like that, so you use the tabs to navigate, rather than clicking the X to close a view. (bear with me) So, clicking the X is actually the exceptional case, not the normal case. Why not have an option to not show the X. Then, you could still right click on the tab to choose to close it. The key here is real-estate - when you dock 5 things, they quickly get pushed off to that secondary menu rather than being right there - this is annoying. Look at the attachment I made - With the space around the X and the size of the X it takes up almost as much space as the word "JUnit" does.
Created attachment 28312 [details] view tabs with multiple views
Hmm... some comments: *When you have a number of views docked together, you don't open and close those views very often. - agree That's kind of the point of docking them like that, so you use the tabs to navigate, rather than clicking the X to close a view. (bear with me) So, clicking the X is actually the exceptional case, not the normal case. Why not have an option to not show the X. Then, you could still right click on the tab to choose to close it. - it is important however for a UI to have both affordances and menu options for important functions The key here is real-estate - when you dock 5 things, they quickly get pushed off to that secondary menu rather than being right there - this is annoying. - see my attachment, only one view has a close box not all 5 Look at the attachment I made - With the space around the X and the size of the X it takes up almost as much space as the word "JUnit" does. - there is a bit of an optical illusion going on with the curve there as well, take a look at my 2nd attachment, maybe you should use this style of tab if you are concerned about space?
Created attachment 28313 [details] same image with narrower style of tabs
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Changes requested on bug 193523
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