On 04/01/2018 01:36 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
The Tabs of XXE are easily hidden for the user. Depending on the size of the screen, or whether the Window has been split in two, or whether the file names are long or short, the room for Tabs can quickly decrease. My XXE editing window sometimes only have room for two visible tabs on my 20inch monitor. And so it is not, in my judgement, a rare thing that users might loose track of which files are open (in this or that mode) already.Note taken. We'll consider limiting the width of a tab by eliding very long file names ("A_very_very_very_long_file_name.ditamap" --> "A_very_very_…_file_name.ditamap").That could help the above problem, and sounds like an improvement in general. However you should perhaps consider to truncate from the right ("A_very_very_very_long…") instead of truncating from the middle ("A_very_very_…_file_name.ditamap"). Why: 1) Most people know what format the work with. 2) The file name becomes more readable/meaningfull. 3) And, when you hover above a tab, the format (read:”configuration”) of the file is mentioned anyway (which includes full file name, including file extension/suffix), so it should not be very important to include the file extension - when this makes the Tab too wide.
This highly depends on how you name your documents. I mean, may be the end of the filename (without the extension), is very important to the author. Anyway, we'll think about the above suggestion before implementing your RFE and we'll find an acceptable compromise.
Slightly off topic: But why do we have to open a file in order to know the title of the file? When one hovers above a tab, why not list the title of the file as well?
This would require inventing yet another configuration element ("6. Configuration elements", http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/configref.html) specifying how to find the title of a document and then modifying all configuration files (".xxe" files) to use this element. A lot of work.
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