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With current wide screens, it would make more sense to have the tabs stacked in a vertical column rather than occupying the top, where they don't fit anyway. It would be even more cool if the tabs could form a tree, showing the order in which the user opened them when navigating through method calls. See here for some inspiration: https://static-ssl-cdn.addons.mozilla.net/img/uploads/previews/full/30/30846.png?modified=1238085213 Thanks for considering.
I just found this on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7672760/vertical-file-tab-in-netbeans pointing to http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/e36924dd340d So, is this feature request actually implemented?
Stando, what is the status regarding vertical toolbars, do we plan this ? IMHO the main toolbar is not designed for vertical display, some elements like Configuration drop-down-list or the garbage collection reporter are too wide to permit it. What I can imagine is vertical display of editor toolbar, where except for the buttons Source, Design, History, all icons are same size and the width of the three buttons seems not prohibitive. However, UEX questions remain: visual interference with all the elements that editors put vertically along edited text (line numbers, bookmarks, breakpoints etc on the left, search term positions, bugs etc on the right), but these should not be prohibitive..
i think the reporter is referring to top-level window tabs, not editor toolbars. in dev builds it is already possible to have editor tabs arranged vertically. as for vertical main window toolbar - there's no plan for that. if somebody needs extra vertical space then can turn the toolbar off and use keyboard shortcuts or menu commands instead...
If in dev builds it is already there, will this feature be present in the next stable (7.2 or whatever it is) ? I am also having lot of opened files and the tabs on the top just can't fit in the screen. However, on wide-screen displays there is alway enough space on the sides, since code usually doesn't pass 120 characters. So, vote up for this one.
Verified that in current dev build it is possible to arrange editor tabs vertically (this means the feature will be available in NB 7.2). Note that there is also the option to arrange editor tabs horizontally in multiple lines. See Tools->Options->Miscellaneous->Windows->Multi-row tabs.
Just tried, works, thanks. However: 1) Could the tab space be resizable? Currently, it's either fixed or I didn't find way to resize. 2) Tab labels are centered. That's not much usable/nice. Could it be left-aligned?
Just noticed: It resizes automatically to the width of the longest label. IMO, having it user-resizable and just show as much of the label as fits would be much better. First few letters of the file is usually enough to distinguish.
(In reply to comment #6) > Just tried, works, thanks. > > However: > > 1) Could the tab space be resizable? Currently, it's either fixed or I didn't > find way to resize. > > 2) Tab labels are centered. That's not much usable/nice. Could it be > left-aligned? The implementation is based on Swing's JTabbedPane so it is limited in what that class can do on various look and feels.