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.