Hi all,
I would like to start a discussion on the tabbed interface in project windows. I have some issues that I would like to point out and I will offer my opinions. However, I really just want to see what the TM community thinks about these things.
When a project window has lots of open files and there is not enough room to fit tabs across the top of the window a arrow appears next to the tabs. When you click on the arrow you are given a list of those files that do NOT have a tab. You can then click on one of those files to bring it to the front. But, then the front file does not show its tab. You can see what file you are working on by looking at the title bar but I think this is confusing.
The interface is combining a list interface with a tabbed interface and I think this could be improved. The first suggestion I have is to have all open files in the list and always show the arrow. You could have the files that have visible tabs be in bold. There are times when I just don't see an open tab and click on the arrow only to also not find the file there.
The next suggestion is to have the tabs scroll and always show the currently forward file's tab. I don't mean to add a scroll bar, just that the tabs could shift over when a file is selected from the arrow list.
Does anyone else find that this behavior could be improved? Are there other suggestions? Has this discussion already occurred? If so then many apologies.
-Eric