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    • Joseph MillenbachJ
      Joseph Millenbach
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      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).

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      • Mark OlsonM
        Mark Olson
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        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.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Joseph Millenbach
          last edited by 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.

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