Hi, This is a suggestion for improvement on the tabs when we have multiple open files. Those who work with many open files (as you may need in a thesis or a book with many chapters) have probably noticed that the caption in the tabs all become "......" after a few files are open, which makes it a bit annoying when you are trying to flip back and forth between different files.
The arrows to scroll through the open files are a nice solution, but Lyx should keep a minimum size of tabs to maintain readability. Maybe this minimum could be user-adjusted. The algorithm that abbreviates the file names could also be improved. As I understand it, the developers opted for choosing to display with first priority a bit of the beginning of the file name, and then a bit of the end, and indicate with '...' when abbreviation has been done. But when there are many open windows it all becomes '......', and surely that space could be used to convey some information, even if only the first few letters of the filename. Maybe something else instead of '...' could be used, maybe '_' or maybe the three dots in '...' could be closer together. Also, when a little more space is available, a file name '/Thesis/Chapter 3 - the third chapter.lyx' becomes something like '.../Chapter 3 - ...t...'. A lot of space was used for the three occurrences of '...', and (roughly) the same space could display 'Chapter 3 - the thi...', or 'Chapter 3 - the third_' which is much more informative. If there's more space available, then it could display '.../Chapter 3 - the third chapter.lyx', but maybe the priority should be of the file name It would also be nice to be able to drag and drop to change the order of the tabs. Another related suggestion: there should be an option to open in a new window, so we can put two windows side-by-side when editing multiple files. This would greatly improve efficiency when editing a file with data from another one. Thanks, Eric
