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Bug 37741

Summary:	Inconsistency of tabs in IDE
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Milan Kubec <mkubec>
Component:	Window System	Assignee:	Ondrej Langr <olangr>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	UI
Priority:	P4
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	scrshot or editor tabs scrshot of debugger tabs scrshot of component tabs scrshot of properties tabs

Description Milan Kubec 2003-12-04 14:17:24 UTC

[WinXP, XP L&F] I looked closely on all kids of
tabs in IDE and realized that each type look very
differently. I mean editor tabs, component palette
tabs, properties tabs, debugger window tabs.
I will attach screenshots of each type, please
consider that they differ in: colors, height,
label alignment, expressing focus, spacing related
to neighbors, ...
All screenshots were taken after one click on the
active tab. 
I undestand that each tab represents something
else (TopComponent, Property sheet) and are
implemented in various modules, but some kind of
consistency would be good.

Comment 1 Milan Kubec 2003-12-04 14:18:05 UTC

Created attachment 12418 [details]
scrshot or editor tabs

Comment 2 Milan Kubec 2003-12-04 14:19:04 UTC

Created attachment 12419 [details]
scrshot of debugger tabs

Comment 3 Milan Kubec 2003-12-04 14:20:37 UTC

Created attachment 12420 [details]
scrshot of component tabs

Comment 4 Milan Kubec 2003-12-04 14:22:09 UTC

Created attachment 12421 [details]
scrshot of properties tabs

Comment 5 Peter Zavadsky 2003-12-04 15:07:39 UTC

Passing to Jano, to think about it.

Comment 6 lordpixel 2004-02-25 18:52:12 UTC

This is just as horrible in the Metal look and feel.

Its particularly bad in SDI mode for the Output window, where the
outer layer of tabs (typically Output & Execution) look completely
different from the inner layer of tabs (Compiler, XML Check, Debugger
Output etc).

Comment 7 Marian Mirilovic 2006-08-17 07:48:50 UTC

*** Issue 39954 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 8 Quality Engineering 2009-12-21 04:39:13 UTC

This bug was reported against NetBeans IDE 6.0 or an older release, or against a non-maintained module. NetBeans team does not have enough resources to get to this issue, therefore we are closing the issue as a WONTFIX. If you are interested in providing a patch for this bug, please see our NetFIX guidelines for how to proceed. 

We apologize for any inconvenience.


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