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The tab control's code accumulated a certain amount of cruft over the last year, as requirements for it became clearer, etc. As a precondition to supporting GTK and other look and feels, and making the code clear and maintainable, some refactoring, elimination of duplicate code, etc., should be done.
Branch tag is ui_cleanup - base tag for branch is BLD200403281800
Done.