> If more files (== buttons) are open than can be layed out with their > preferred size (== full icon/name), than they will be made smaller so > they would fit in the row. In this case, the tooltip for the buttons > should show the full file name. > > What do you think?
Hello Tom, That's an idea... But I'd prefer to see the focused editor and the surrounding editors with their full name... I gave me another idea: What about be inspired but what Apple did with their OS X dock ? Though I'm not really much familiar with OS X (coz I'm a win user), but their idea of different icon size is quite interesting. Here the principle would be different. Let's keep the tabs. It's better looking than buttons. But the name of the tabs would be as follows (in order to have a maximum of tabs visible): If you have the required space, show the tabs as usual. If space starts lacking on the single row, the names of the files opened might shrink a bit. But the tabs which has focus, and the surrounding tabs should have almost their full name written, and the more you get far from the active editor, the name of the file is more and more shortened. Let's see that with an example (I use the same name for each tab to demonstrate the principle) [ MyC... ][ MyCl... ][ MyCla... ][ MyClas... ][ MyFocusClass][ MyClas... ][ MyCla... ][ MyCl... ][ MyC... ] Only the editor with focus has it's full name, but not the others. And when you change with ALT-arrow, the length of the tabs change, with the focused editor always having its full name written. That's a bit like OS X's dock :o) (It'd be better with a screenshot, I know) Guillaume _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
