https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386758
--- Comment #7 from k3bBug <erben...@comcast.net> --- A Multi-Row tab bar would be sweet. Please consider it. The other options are not as user friendly. Note there is an addon for firefox that provides multi-row tab bar and another that provides multi-row bookmarks - both are quite popular. What does that say about firefox's current method of handling multiple pages/bookmarks? "The problem is that a large number of files is always hard to access with a tabbar." If its because the tabs shrink in width - then yes, I would agree, a multi-row tab bar solves this problem. dropping filenames off the tab bar into a list (as done currently) also doesn't help things. The Ctrl-Alt-O + typing part of a filename thing is unwieldy compared to a multi-row tab bar. Until you have worked using a multi-row tab bar you just can not appreciate how user friendly it is, its also a time saver. Consider what its like to work in Kate with say 4 files open, the tabs work nicely right? I'm just asking to have this extended a bit and to say that you will just hit this issue again as the number of files goes up is a non-starter. There is a normal intuitive usage pattern that does not extend indefinitely and most people know that at some point you need to close some files but I'd hazard a guess and say that having 10-15 or so files open at once isn't unreasonable, but at some point no matter how user friendly things are you are overwhelmed and its time to close some stuff and I think that limit isn't too much above 25 or so. For sure no one in their right mind wants to have 5-100 or more files open, its just not manageable. I don't care if the multi-row-tab-bar has a 3 row limit and a max tab count of say 16-20. That's completely reasonable and it helps people work. Squishing tabs to the point they are unreadable means the tabs have lost there purpose and does not help people work. As for contributing patches, sure, if your a programmer. Not everyone is. I have not looked at Kate code but the tab bar is already there, is it really a lot of work to make it multi-row? Maybe it is, I'm asking not commenting. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
