Suggestion - Improve Tabs display, prevent confusion
Posted: 2007-03-09, 08:10 UTC
Hi.
During my regular work I use multiple Tabs - 10-15 on each panel (and I need this many, trust me
). But since many of them has the same name of the child dir, their names in the Tabs are identical, which makes my usage of TC quite frustrating as I spend lots of time trying to identify the correct Tab by mousing over them.
Adding the Drive letter to the Tab is a step in the right direction, but regretably it's not of much help, since most people (me included) don't use multiple partitions, just C: and network, or C: and D:, so it's not enough to identify the Tab you're looking for.
My suggestion: Ability to set the Tab's font and background color (and maybe set the font), based on finding a defined string in the Tab's full path. To prevent conflicts, the list of defined 'substring -> colors' should have priorities (for an example of such configuration interface, take a look at BareTail. It's 'Highlighting' configuration is precisely this).
For example, Consider these dirs:
C:\Projects\ProductName\SVN\Trunk\ProjName
C:\Projects\ProductName\SVN\Branches\1760\ProjName
C:\Projects\ProductName\SVN\Branches\1770\ProjName2\Release
C:\Projects\UI\SkinLib\Release
To make it easier to identify, I could define:
ProductName\SVN\Trunk\ -> Green background, default text color
ProductName\SVN\Branches\1760\ -> Yellow background, blue text
ProductName\SVN\Branches\1770 -> Yellow background, red text
C:\Projects\UI -> different font
Alternatively, you can expose the Tabs display as a plugin interface, and let other people implement it
Thanks in advance,
dedicated user
During my regular work I use multiple Tabs - 10-15 on each panel (and I need this many, trust me
). But since many of them has the same name of the child dir, their names in the Tabs are identical, which makes my usage of TC quite frustrating as I spend lots of time trying to identify the correct Tab by mousing over them.Adding the Drive letter to the Tab is a step in the right direction, but regretably it's not of much help, since most people (me included) don't use multiple partitions, just C: and network, or C: and D:, so it's not enough to identify the Tab you're looking for.
My suggestion: Ability to set the Tab's font and background color (and maybe set the font), based on finding a defined string in the Tab's full path. To prevent conflicts, the list of defined 'substring -> colors' should have priorities (for an example of such configuration interface, take a look at BareTail. It's 'Highlighting' configuration is precisely this).
For example, Consider these dirs:
C:\Projects\ProductName\SVN\Trunk\ProjName
C:\Projects\ProductName\SVN\Branches\1760\ProjName
C:\Projects\ProductName\SVN\Branches\1770\ProjName2\Release
C:\Projects\UI\SkinLib\Release
To make it easier to identify, I could define:
ProductName\SVN\Trunk\ -> Green background, default text color
ProductName\SVN\Branches\1760\ -> Yellow background, blue text
ProductName\SVN\Branches\1770 -> Yellow background, red text
C:\Projects\UI -> different font
Alternatively, you can expose the Tabs display as a plugin interface, and let other people implement it
Thanks in advance,
dedicated user