i often work with pretty bloated projects, and the tabs don't really work for me, either. my personal preference would be for a list of active files displayed in the drawer - so split the drawer between that and the project file list, as shown in this mockup:
http://dev.samandrews.com/misc/tm1.jpg (121k jpg)
to further extend the functionality of this view, it might be desirable to indicate some basic metadata for open files such as last saved, number of bookmarks (useful if you use bookmarks to track your to-do items) and so forth. i think the spotlight-esque filter as xavier proposed could also be very useful.
perhaps the option to display file like this could be toggled as a preference at a per-project level, or automatically implement itself when there are too many tabs (although i think that could be a pretty confusing user experience).
Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Jan 2, 2005, at 3:45, Xavier Noria wrote:
[...] a shortcut (Apple-E) that expands the list of wrapped tabs. In that box there's a handy textfield that filters as you type [...] you can do that with the mouse but that's rather slow compared to the keyboard [...]
Yes, I would like to introduce something similar to this. I rarely touch my mouse when I'm using TM, so I'm definitely a fan of improving switching tabs via the keyboard :)
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