Nico Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > the GUI version and that's the way GUIs generally look > > like. The same goes for icons in notebook tabs: Almost > > all the GUI applications I can think of display such an > > icon although the label would be sufficient. It's just > > a bit nicer to look at. > > FWIW, I think this is a nice change. If I edit more than, > say, 5 files, I can't use a tab for each file anyways. > For just two to three tabs, the icons give the tabs > a much nicer look (at least on GTK, where most tabs > include file icons. In OS X, tabs usually don't have file > icons, so I wouldn't want it in the OS X version).
More than just looking nicer, I think it can be a usability improvement, e.g. Firefox displays the shortcut icon in its tabs; I find this makes finding a tab easier. But... Vim can detect ~500 different filetypes. Who's coming up with 500 distinct and easily recognizable icons? --Antony --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
