On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:41:08AM +0200, racoon wrote: > On 21.07.2016 02:04, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:32:01PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > > > > Interesting idea. I guess we do not show it to use the extra space, but > > > I'm not sure which is best. > > > > I doubt we are going to change this by default [...] > > (Sorry for being slightly off-topic.) > > I am not sure I understand why though. > > If the reason is that the extra space is important to have then something > should be done about the spaces in LyX in general. Because I guess often > people work with several tabs anyway and if space is a problem there, then > it is a more general problem.
Yes it would be nice to improve vertical space in other ways. > Always showing tabs seems also like pretty much the standard in other > applications (e.g. browsers). Good point. I wonder if it makes a difference that LyX has some toolbars that take up a lot of space up top, and Chromium and Firefox do not. > My guess is, as I suggested, that this is > because there are certain functionalities when tabs are shown that users get > used to which are lost when they are hidden. I'm not sure what the reason is, but what you put makes sense. > > I guess tabs could be shown by default but there could be a switch in > > Tools > Preferences... > Look & Feel > Document Handling. Could be. Scott
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