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Good idea, yes, I think this should be doable.
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There's something similar in NC already: F1/F2 shows the locations of all tabs at the bottom-most section on the pop-up menu.
Yes, fully agree, a combination of favourites with groups would be very useful. To be clear - the library NC currently uses for tab management is rather old (~18 years old) and is a bit outdated nowadays. I'd be happy to switch to something more modern, either third-party or written from scratch within NC, but that's a quite significant undertaking. |
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Just a few ideas about tabs and their management:
With many, many tabs open in a panel, the tabs' names get quite understandably truncated to just ... or less, which makes the hover‑over‑tab x⃣ "close tab" button somewhat "dangerous", as it's easier to misclick and close the tab instead of selecting it.
It's the same issue Safari and other browsers have when having many tabs open (I know, I shouldn't, but...), where user's misclicking easily closes a tab instead of selecting it. Made a bit worse as if you open an insane amount of tabs, they get resized next to nothing and the close tab button takes up almost all the space in the tab (though that's an extreme case).
I wonder if an option to disable "close tab button" on the inactive tabs when truncated below a certain size would be doable? If not adding much overhead, as the tabs are apparently resized dynamically.
Dynamic resizing of tabs might be better with some lowest fixed size limit, which brings me to and would probably require:
Tab list
Would be really nice to have an opened tabs list, either as a Quick List or even a special panel (like Processes). A dropdown button showing all opened tabs in each panel when clicked would be even more intuitive. You already have a +⃣ button for New Tab, so maybe a ㆔⃣ button on the opposite side of it or something like that?
Favourites are great, but even more friendly in the long run would be tab or panel groups, similar to tab groups in latest Safari.
One usually works on projects with several tabs open in each panel, relevant to just that specific project. Having a saveable tab group that remembers which tabs were open in each panel and could be saved, restored or seamlessly switched to a different group when one switches projects.
That last one is obviously a major undertaking, as it would require a lot of thought on the implementation (e.g. should a saved tab group be static, what opened windows should be restored upon restart, warning on user closing a window with a group when changed, et cetera). Though not ideal, something like Safari 17 attempts with their tab groups.
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