Re: Two GTK related feature requests

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> It is clear how this would work when you have just a few buffers, but
> what about when you have 50?  We need to finish designing this feature
> before implementing it.

One thing that people seem to do is to implement scrolling, of sorts.
It looks like this (assuming only two buffers are shown):

 ________  ________
/buffer 3\/buffer 4\[<][>]

Then you can click on [<] to show buffers 2 and 3, and on [>] to show
buffers 4 and 5 in the tab bar.  Or so, maybe the arrows scroll by
more than one buffer.

Another thing that people seem to do is to shorten long buffer names,
so that they display "som...ame" instead of "some long buffer name".

A third thing, which is an alternative to the first thing, is that
they just show multiple rows of buffer tabs.  My coworker, using the
NetBeans Java IDE, always has 4 or 5 rows of buffer tabs below the
editing area.  He always uses the mouse to select one of them, and he
seems to remember them by position: they are not sorted in any obvious
order, at least afaict they are not sorted alphabetically.  In case he
forgets the position of one of the tabs, he scans all of them
visually.  Amazing.

Kai