File name on UI tab is wider now. On purpose? Can I revert?

[Joseph Millenbach]

All my tabs in the app, where the filenames are shown, are much wider now.

Is there a reason for that? Can I undo the change by a setting?

Pretty sure I updated my local copy recently so I was assuming it was a purposeful change, but… <shrug>. Long time user on Windows 10.

And I’ll mention I almost gave up before working around this “new user” UI. This is not a “complaint” proper that I would instead put in the complaint area (round bin).

This UI was not intuitive to a person with a CS BS and decades of experience. And you allow zero other ways to get help.

All I kept seeing was “you need to type at least 7 characters” but the title had plenty of characters. I didn’t realize the area on the left had a cursor (was under the pretty dialog message on Firefox). I thought it was a queue management interface. That after I posted something it’d appear there until it was approved, and go through various states (waiting, approved, etc).

[Mark Olson]

Assuming you’re using NPP 8.7.2 or newer, this is due to the Pin Tab feature, which you can disable (thus reducing the size of your file tabs) by opening Settings->Preferences->General and unchecking Enable pin tab feature in the Tab Bar section.

[Alan Kilborn]

@Joseph-Millenbach said:

All my tabs in the app, where the filenames are shown, are much wider now.

Hmm, I somehow can’t believe that someone would complain about wide tabs, and yet fail to notice the “pin” icon on the tabs.

so I was assuming it was a purposeful change

It was.

And I’ll mention I almost gave up before working around this “new user” UI. This is not a “complaint” proper that I would instead put in the complaint area (round bin).

This UI was not intuitive to a person with a CS BS and decades of experience. And you allow zero other ways to get help.

All I kept seeing was “you need to type at least 7 characters” but the title had plenty of characters. I didn’t realize the area on the left had a cursor (was under the pretty dialog message on Firefox). I thought it was a queue management interface. That after I posted something it’d appear there until it was approved, and go through various states (waiting, approved, etc).

These seem to be complaints against the forum software, not Notepad++.
The forum software is just something used by the Notepad++ authors, not developed by them, so if you don’t like it, go complain somewhere else about it (the software used is NodeBB).
More forum complaints by this user HERE.