On 18/3/08 10:35 AM, "Stefan Schimanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Am 17.03.2008 um 07:09 schrieb Eric Cavalcanti:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I suggest the following, i.e. only the base name without path or
> extension. Just a simple appended '*' for changed buffers and the
> Qt::ElideNone mode to avoid the useless "...". In short: as
> minimalistic as possible.

What happens in that case with long file names?

Eric


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