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When I set the Buffer Tabs plugin to "multirow", and have several rows of tabs, and click on one tab, the rows are rearranged so that the tab which now has the focus, is in the bottom row.

It should be possible to turn this rearrangement of rows off.

Reason: If I switch forth and back between different tabs, this rearranging of the tab rows gets really confusing.

Submitted	rovf - 2017-01-20 08:44:30.967000	Assigned
Priority	5	Labels
Status	open	Group	None
Resolution	None

Comments

2017-01-20 09:32:38.842000 jflarvoire	I agree that this is confusing, and not just in jEdit: All Windows applications that have dialog boxes with multiple rows of tabs do the same, with the same confusing results. I've thought about this before, but never found a satisfactory solution: If you don't reorder the rows, then how do you connect the page with its corresponding tab? (Which IS necessary to know where you are.) - If you simply make the tab higher, going over the ones in the row(s) below, then... 1) You will not see those tabs anymore. (Possible workaround: Use some kind of transparency to see them anyway) 2) More serious issue: You will not be able to click on those tabs anymore. - Maybe we could attach the tab to its page using a narrow "stick", to hide as little as possible on the rows below. This would avoid the clickability issue. But would this be easily understandable? Jean-François
2017-01-20 09:33:19.597000 jflarvoire	I agree that this is confusing, and not just in jEdit: All Windows applications that have dialog boxes with multiple rows of tabs do the same, with the same confusing results. I've thought about this before, but never found a satisfactory solution: If you don't reorder the rows, then how do you connect the page with its corresponding tab? (Which IS necessary to know where you are.) - If you simply make the tab higher, going over the ones in the row(s) below, then... 1) You will not see those tabs anymore. (Possible workaround: Use some kind of transparency to see them anyway) 2) More serious issue: You will not be able to click on those tabs anymore. - Maybe we could attach the tab to its page using a narrow "stick", to hide as little as possible on the rows below. This would avoid the clickability issue. But would this be easily understandable? Jean-François ----- Mail original ----- De: "Ronald" <rovf@users.sf.net> À: jedit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé: Vendredi 20 Janvier 2017 09:44:31 Objet: [ jEdit-devel ] [jedit:plugin-feature-requests] #379 Buffer Tabs: Don't change order of tab rows when clicking on tab [plugin-feature-requests:#379] Buffer Tabs: Don't change order of tab rows when clicking on tab Status: open Group: Created: Fri Jan 20, 2017 08:44 AM UTC by Ronald Last Updated: Fri Jan 20, 2017 08:44 AM UTC Owner: nobody When I set the Buffer Tabs plugin to "multirow", and have several rows of tabs, and click on one tab, the rows are rearranged so that the tab which now has the focus, is in the bottom row. It should be possible to turn this rearrangement of rows off. Reason: If I switch forth and back between different tabs, this rearranging of the tab rows gets really confusing. Sent from sourceforge.net because jedit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is subscribed to https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/plugin-feature-requests/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/admin/plugin-feature-requests/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot -- ----------------------------------------------- jEdit Developers' List jEdit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel
2017-01-20 13:28:52.603000 rovf	From the user's viewpoint, I see (in a single-row tab) the active tab by the way it is coloured. Usually the background changes, but some applications just change the font to bold, or use a different colour, In any case, the same approach could be used for multi-row tabs. One of them is coloured/marked distinctly, and this is the one which "belongs" to the edit pane.