https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165989

--- Comment #11 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Jeff Fortin Tam from comment #10)
> I accidentally noticed that in such cases, you can right-click the tabs list
> to have a compact menu that lets you directly join to any of the off-screen
> scrolled tabs.

Yes, but that's even more confusing, since it's not visually obvious that the
elements on this menu are the dialog tabs; you have to basically believe it.
Plus, when you make a selection that way, the set of visible tabs change, and
now you have no idea where you are, it's just a bunch of unrecognized tabs
everywhere.


> That said, 16 tabs seems like an unusually high amount of pages, vs 5-10
> tabs…

Remember the vertical tabs made an appearance in the first place because of the
dialogs with lots of tabs, where 2 and especially 3 lines of top tab-headers
felt excessive and confusing.


> In extreme cases like that, maybe you would be better served
> by using the
> same widget as the global Options' dialog (the vertically scrollable
> treeview/listview), which is more compact and (by nature of being
> scrollable) does not have such limitations?

It's not an extreme case, and it's not about myself but about all of our users.
Editing a paragraph style or opening other dialogs with many tabs is not an
extreme case. Having said that - yes, that is a possible workaround here. But
in 26.2 we're supposed to have icons next to tab names...

Also, I seem to be seeing different behavior with newer nightlies, e.g.

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ed45cdaef3d2807d0b9d6a4c08da375fc72024a6
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US

is it just me or has a change been introduced to avoid the overflow?

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