POLL: Remove 'Show close button on each tab' option

Alan Kilborn

… suggest a new option “Confirm before closing multiple tabs” … but this is probably … a new feature request.

This is a good idea, and yes, it would be a new feature request (please make one).

datatraveller1

@Alan-Kilborn I have noticed this feature request already exists:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15362

So maybe we can create a new poll if needed sometime.

donho

The motivation of this poll is due to the code review for the implementation of the feature Pin Tab:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/15750

Now I see people are against this idea so “Enable pin tab feature” will be optional as well:

Thank you for your votes & sharing your opinion!

Lycan Thrope

@donho,
I like this idea, although, honestly, right now if I want a document left open, I just leave it open after saving before shutting it down, although to speed up opening, I do usually close all documents and use the Files->Recent Files menu option, set to 30 documents listed. So although I find this an interesting/useful feature, it doesn’t usually come into play in my use case, but the option to turn it on or off, as well as the Close button on the tab does appear to be needed. I suspect the speed of opening will be sped up with it off, although I could be wrong.

Alan Kilborn

Let’s think more about Show close button on each tab.

As I tried to state above, for myself I don’t like to have a close button showing on each tab, because it is too easy for an errant mouse click to close something I don’t want closed, then I have to reopen and reposition it in the tab order – blech!

With the upcoming pin-tab feature, perhaps it is likely for a user to, again accidentally, hit the close button instead of the pin button when attempting to pin a tab. Let’s face it, these buttons are fairly small…

(Just so everyone knows, I don’t have any physical ailments that cause me to make errant mouse clicks, I just find them surprisingly easy to make.)

I’ve noticed in other software I use that the close button on the tab only appears on the active tab. This makes an accidental closure a lot less likely, and keeps the tabs “less wide” generally, because no space is dedicated for this little button.

So… let me state that I don’t ever enable Show close button on each tab…but if the feature were “Show close button on active tab” then I probably would enable that.

Snabel42

@Alan-Kilborn I second this, close button on active tab would be my choice as well

Alan Kilborn

@Snabel42 said:

close button on active tab would be my choice as well

I will make a feature request for that.

(I think maybe this POLL thread has “gone off the rails” a bit from where @donho was thinking it would go)

xomx

@Alan-Kilborn said in POLL: Remove 'Show close button on each tab' option:

close button on active tab would be my choice as well
I will make a feature request for that.

Already suggested once:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15298

Alan Kilborn

@xomx said:

Already suggested once: …

Thanks for pointing that out.
Unfortunately, that issue was closed with a commit that had absolutely nothing to do with the request, which was entitled “Hide Close button on inactive tabs”. Lovely.

Note that I commented in a negative fashion (about the requested feature) in that issue thread. I’ve since changed my mind about it. That’s allowed, right?

donho

@Alan-Kilborn
The best I can do:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/15781

Alan Kilborn

@donho said in POLL: Remove 'Show close button on each tab' option:

The best I can do

And very nice indeed.
Now I can use the close-button-on-tab feature!
Thank you for your effort.
But if that is the way it is (no option), perhaps some will miss the old behavior (seeing a close button on all tabs including inactive ones).

donho

@Alan-Kilborn said in POLL: Remove 'Show close button on each tab' option:

Now I can use the close-button-on-tab feature!

Nice to hear of it :)

But if that is the way it is (no option), perhaps some will miss the old behavior (seeing a close button on all tabs including inactive ones).

The behaviour stays the same, only the visual effect is different. I do believe that the disturbing will pass away after few days of the usage anyway.
There will be no option for the new behaviour.