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Summary: | [81cat] group and order Editor tabs by projects | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | muellermi <muellermi> |
Component: | Window System | Assignee: | Stanislav Aubrecht <saubrecht> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P2 | ||
Version: | 8.1 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 7 | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
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Description
muellermi
2015-08-20 08:49:42 UTC
Created attachment 155489 [details]
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Or at least, provide an "arrange" button. See attached snap, which displays the mess (if opend more files than in this example it becomes a real problem). An "arrange" button might be placed near by the "document list" button. Created attachment 155490 [details]
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If a developer displays the open editor tabs on top (which is default), the tabs usually are useless when more than a couple of editors are open. In such a case, the developer might frequently use the open documents list. If (like in my example) the developer switches the tabs to the left side, then this becomes the open document list. On a 2K Screen this list may show more than 50 files, on 4K even more. Without ordering, this becomes useless and the user needs to open the ordered document list. But, displaying tabs on left should avoid the need for opening this list. That's why it is really important to group and sort open editor tabs. BTW, groups might be collapes / expanded Rassigning for further evaluation. For a better usage of the tabs, I sort them manually from time to time. And it seems to be a good idea, not to sort alphabetically with in a project only, but within a project and file type, eg. separate HTML files from Java files. |