Move left scroll arrow to left side of tab bar?
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With more tabs than will fit on screen, most programs put the left scroll arrow on the left side of the tab bar and the right scroll arrow on the right side of the tab bar. Is there any setting to do this, or any way to write a plugin to do this?
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With more tabs than will fit on screen, most programs put the left scroll arrow on the left side of the tab bar and the right scroll arrow on the right side of the tab bar.
I am not sure I’d agree with the word “most”.
- Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Notepad app (the one that handles multiple tabs) does.
- But Chrome just keeps shrinking the tab shape, and after a few dozen, I stopped trying to see if I ever got it to show scroll controls
- OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc (and my memory of Excel) put both the
◀go-left and▶go-right and add-sheet buttons on the lower left - Google Sheets webapp puts both the
<and>on the lower right - As far as I can tell, Visual Studio doesn’t give such buttons; instead, they just have the
▼pulldown, similar to the one on Notepad++'s menu bar. - Mozilla Thunderbird (email client), like Chrome, seems to just shrink the tabs; again, I could never get it to show scroll controls.
So I tried a variety of apps, from different categories of tabbed-like interfaces, and only one of them puts the left-scroll on the left and the right-scroll on the right. In my quick experiment, “most” put them immediately next to each other, wherever they go. But really, it seems there’s no global consistency on such scroll controls. That’s not to say that there aren’t a gazillion other apps that do split them between left and right sides of the Tab Bar – just that it apparently depends on one’s set of applications that they use.
I can understand wanting it as a feature, if it’s what you are used to. It isn’t currently an option in Notepad++ (though it could be requested, as described in our feature request FAQ); and, as far as I know, there aren’t any plugins that currently move the Tab-Bar-scroll-left button to the left side of the Tab Bar (and I don’t know who would win the war between a plugin and the main app as far as trying to position that button, so I don’t know if a plugin could enforce a different location for it)
