I looked at the WinXP screenshot, and I'm not sure if I would like it. The way it currently is in IDEA gives me almost everything I want:
- an editor tab for each file I'm working on - editor tabs don't change their spacial relationships just by activating a file, but only when opening or closing files - take up as little screen real estate as possible while still showing all editor tabs at the same time (I have the tab limit set to a very high number so editor tabs don't disappear automatically when opening many files.) All this gives me the ability to take advantage of the spacial relationships between the editor tabs to be able to navigate to them quickly. Also, I tend to think about the editor tabs not so much as the tabs of physical folders in a filing cabinet (which is probably where this UI widget originally came from) but as tokens for the files I am working with. As such, I like the token-"handling" to exibit all the properties I mentioned above. For me, "handling" the tokens aka editor tabs aka files is kind of like handling index cards in Extreme Programming. For the full touchy-feely experience though, IDEA lacks one thing: the ability to reorder the editor tabs. Call me crazy but it also frequently drives me nuts that I can't reorder the programs in the windows task bar. To make a long story short. Please be careful when changing this functionality in IDEA, and, if it were up to me, I wouldn't change it at all (other than adding tab-reordering). My 2 cents. -Thomas > -----Original Message----- > From: Eugene Belyaev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Eap-list] Annoying editor tabs 'feature' > > > I agree. We'll try to work out this issue for the next version, > probably also adding the close buttons to every tab. But how about > using Ctrl-E in Pandora to quickly jump to a recent file? > > Best regards, > > Eugene Belyaev > IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com > "Develop with pleasure" > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ara Abrahamian > > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:30 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Eap-list] Annoying editor tabs 'feature' > > > > > > The best things to do IMHO is the way WinXP handles it in > > task bar. An image showing it in action is attached. Up and > > down arrow buttons. When you click on down arrow you see the > > second row. TextPad offers a left/right arrow button but it's > > hard to use, you need to press right arrow button repeatedly > > to get to the document you want! Another good idea for the > > tabs is taken from Opera browser: you have several tabs open, > > tab1 has focus, you go to tab2, if you single-click on tab2, > > tab1 comes up, or in other words in recently used order, so > > you can very easily navigate in open tabs. > > > > Ara. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On > > > Behalf Of Christian > > Sell > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:03 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [Eap-list] Annoying editor tabs 'feature' > > > > > > >In Early Access version 521 - An annoying feature has > > appeared on the > > > tabs > > > >for open editors. If there is more than one row of tabs > > and a tab at > > the > > > >back is clicked, it isn't brought to the front. Also opening new > > editors > > > >places the new tab next to the tab currently in focus, > rather than > > after > > > the > > > >last tab to the front-right. > > > > > > > >Is this a 'Feature' or a bug? > > > > > > > > > AFAIK its a feature. It was changed from the default swing tab > > behavior > > > because some users (and IDEA developers I assume) agreed > > that it was > > > irritating. I tended to agree at that time, but now that > I see the > > > results, I must say that I agree with you. The swing designers > > probably > > > went through the same thought/experience process before > deciding as > > they > > > did. > > > > > > I have seen apps that only allow one row of tabs, and provide some > > sort of > > > horizontal scroll function to allow for more tabs than fit on the > > page. > > > Maybe there is no ideal solution. > > > > > > Christian > > > > > > P.S.: what I do like is the new (?) CVS diff viewer. 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