Re: [platform-ui-dev] Editor tabs

[Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxx]

Jay,

The arrow buttons have not gone away entirely, they just don't appear as 
soon.  We've actually reverted to the v1 behaviour on this.
In addition, in the next integration build, the tabs will remain 
compressed even when the arrows appear.

Making the tab for the active editor be full sized would take space away 
from the other tabs, and cause dynamic relayout of the tabs when switching 
between editors.
Also, you usually know the name of the current file.  It's the name of 
other files that you usually need to discover.
The tooltip is not great for this, however I think that reducing the delay 
to 0 would be too distracting for when the name is fully visible, or when 
you can determine the name when compressed, and just want to switch.  In 
any case, the tooltip delay is not something we have control over unless 
we emulate our own tooltip support, which is not a good idea.
It may help if we can eliminate the tooltip delay when hovering over 
different tabs, once the tooltip has already appeared.
I'll see if this is possible.

Nick





"Jay Cagle" <jcagle@xxxxxxxxxx>
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I have a couple suggestions regarding editor tabs.  I'm glad to see that 
the scrolling idea (with the left and right arrow buttons) has been 
removed -- I found that not very usable and frustrating. 

In the 0501 build, the editor tabs are proportionally reduced in size as 
more editors are open.  I'd like to suggest that the tab for the active 
editor be made full-sized (large enough to display the editor title). This 
would allow the user to see what's being edited without having to hover 
over the tab.  Granted it would reduce the space available for the 
non-active editor tabs, but I think it would be worth it. 

Second, the tooltip delay on the editor tabs makes it slow to find an open 
editor.  (Yes, I know about Ctrl+F6.)  I think removing the delay 
altogether (so the tooltip is displayed as soon as you move the mouse to 
the tab) would help.  Or maybe better yet would be to use an approach like 
the tree viewer -- as you mouse over an editor tab display the complete 
title in a rectangle overlaid on the truncated title (instead of a tooltip 
below the tab).  This would also have the benefit that the tooltip could 
be different than the title. 

Jay 

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IBM WebSphere Studio Web Tooling Development
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