https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95122

--- Comment #7 from Alex <[email protected]> ---
First of all, thanks to Thomaz for restoring the first and last tab scroll
buttons I asked for in bug 93318.

I found the subsequent user comments in that bug commentary revealing in the
variety of reactions to something so basically simple.  Given that there would
seem to be no approach which would please everyone, it's kind of a wonder that
people such as Thomaz would want to volunteer their personal time to do
anything!  But, fortunately, they do, and the rest of us without such skills
get to benefit.

One of the apparent desires by other users is for controls that have no
function in a particular context to not be visible.  For a mouse right-click
context menu, that is exactly what I would expect, i.e., to only see a list of
things I can do in that specific context.  However, I fail to see any harm in
having a control visible which, at that moment in time, doesn't have any
function it can be expected to do.  It's presence is not doing any harm, the
space it takes up can't be used for anything else, and putting in the code to
make it visible/invisible as the context demands adds to the bloat of the
overall program and makes the program less responsive.

I support the concept of allowing users to customize which controls are
visible, as this enhancement bug seeks to do.  But, that's a one-time step for
the user and the program, not something the program has to constantly evaluate.

Thinking more about the specific topic of the tab scroll buttons, I offer the
idea that the scroll one tab left and right buttons might be more useful if
they scrolled one sheet width's worth of tabs, rather just one tab.  One of the
commenters in bug 93318 expressed the view that a large number of tabs in a
workbook was more of a rarity.  Perhaps it is for him, but for me it is very
common, and I suspect I am not the only such user.  Perhaps scrolling a sheet
width's worth of tabs is programmatically difficult to achieve, but if not,
doing so is more likely to bring the desried tab into view with one click than
advancing only one tab.

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