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Bug 40816 - Tab Usability: Tab menu should be on the left
Summary: Tab Usability: Tab menu should be on the left
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: jrojcek
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks: 50354
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Reported: 2004-03-06 01:24 UTC by lordpixel
Modified: 2009-04-08 14:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description lordpixel 2004-03-06 01:24:22 UTC
Presently the new Editor window tab design is
layed out like this:

[Tab Name][Tab Name][Tab Name][<][>][V]

It should be on the left:

[<][>][V][Tab Name][Tab Name][Tab Name]

Rationale:

I'm working on a file. I realize a have to edit a
file I remember I was working on previously, but I
can't immediately see it on the screen.

Since the tabs are generally in chronological
order, I click the leftmost tab to see if its the
one I want. I do this a couple of times.

If I don't find the tab I want after a couple of
tries, I give up and go to use the menu to find
the file I want to work on.

Problem: the Tab selection menu is all the way
over on the right, but my mouse is all the way
over on the left.

I realize one could make a reverse argument: if
one were paging through the tabs at the right hand
end, having the menu on the left hand end will be
less usable. However after a month or so on 3.6 I
find this doesn't happen often. Almost always I'm
working on a file I opened more recently (so it's
tab is further to the right) and looking for a
file I opened long ago (so its tab is on the
left). Thus I always end up searching backwards
through the tabs.

Solution: put the tab dropdown menu at both ends,
or move it to the left.
Comment 1 Milos Kleint 2004-03-08 10:29:42 UTC
sending to HIE for evaluation.
Comment 2 David Simonek 2004-03-11 15:30:27 UTC
Lordpixel :-) Nice name :-)
Comment 3 jrojcek 2004-07-27 18:49:21 UTC
This is an enhancement.
Comment 4 Marian Mirilovic 2004-12-23 10:32:29 UTC
I guess this won't be fixed for NB4.0 , please evaluate again.
Comment 5 Ondrej Langr 2009-04-08 14:58:09 UTC
This is ancient issue and the behavior is highly habitary now and I'm worried that changing such thing would raise much
anger :-). 

This is not to say that access to many open files should not be improved, it is just to say that after all the time
having this layout, just switching the sides is not a way to go. 

Closing.