Bug 341150

Confirmed there's a change. Agree that it indicated availability of a drop-down menu from that tab. 
Not sure about it indicating the only useable tab at "a" point, it's just not considered as such.

And not sure if drop down behaviour is much different in this compared to other tabs. In fact other tabs have drop-down areas, just smaller.

The tab switched to bold text from a graphics, and the old graphics contain the arrow. So would have to paint the arrow using standard means of Qt. But should we? The Kexi tab is specially painted when inacive and when active as we can see on the attached screenshot.

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Inactive Kexi tab

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Active Kexi tab

Sample for MS Office 365: http://media.askvg.com/articles/images4/Office_2013_Office_15_Office_365_Preview.png
Sample for MS Office 2013: http://media.askvg.com/articles/images4/Office_2013_Office_15_Office_365_Preview.png

Sorry, http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/198/6/2/microsoft_office_2013_cp_by_misaki2009-d57l86y.jpg

I agree that the text is set in bold and it is not just a case of a dropped arrow.

Looking at the graphic on another machine with an older build and with a nice lcd display this looks very stylish

The new bold text on a 1024 x 768 cathode ray monitor  is not so stylish, when I hover over the tab it 'doubles up' and the 'K' becomes thick and blodgy, and the 'i' appears doubled.

As my experience suggests, for existing users the removal of the old graphic with arrow and its substitution with bold text is very evident. The current text implementation (as I see it using the oxygen style) does not look so good.

But over to you, it was changed for a reason I am sure.

(In reply to Jarosław Staniek from comment #3)
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> Active Kexi tab

Mine looks nothing like that, at least under style=oxygen
tabs have rounded corners and are shaded on hover and subsequent selection

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Inactive Kexi tab for Oxygen style

"The new bold text on a 1024 x 768 cathode ray monitor is not so stylish, when I hover over the tab it 'doubles up' and the 'K' becomes thick and blodgy, and the 'i' appears doubled."

I can imagine why is that. Would be fixed.

"As my experience suggests, for existing users the removal of the old graphic with arrow and its substitution with bold text is very evident. The current text implementation (as I see it using the oxygen style) does not look so good."

Yeah, what if in Oxygen style the Kexi tab shows an always present rectangle as in the Breeze style (https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=89661)?

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oxygen style showing Kexi tab with mouse over

could not select smaller area using mouse with mouse on! enlarge this image as good detail and the doubling effect is shown clearly.

Thanks @Ian, yes I see the glitch.

OK, @Ian, there's solution to test, if you want to test, please update calligra/2.8 branch, apply the patch from https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121237/ (use Download Diff, type "patch -p1 < patchname" from the command line in calligra/ dir;  ask me on IRC for help), then compile and install.
It fixes look of gtk+ style too.

Git commit 9f75e62e456e6ea0f454555ffdeb828101c70045 by Jaroslaw Staniek.
Committed on 24/11/2014 at 21:20.
Pushed by staniek into branch 'calligra/2.8'.

Improve appearance of main tabbed toolbar for GTK+ and Oxygen styles

+properly redraw bottom line when needed
FIXED-IN:2.8.7

backported from 2.9

M  +19   -18   kexi/main/KexiMainWindow_p.h

http://commits.kde.org/calligra/9f75e62e456e6ea0f454555ffdeb828101c70045

Git commit c4875b5037567eb4f56cc1c5e3842f17b694e4dd by Jaroslaw Staniek.
Committed on 24/11/2014 at 21:20.
Pushed by staniek into branch 'master'.

Improve appearance of main tabbed toolbar for GTK+ and Oxygen styles

+properly redraw bottom line when needed

M  +19   -13   kexi/main/KexiMainWindow_p.h

http://commits.kde.org/calligra/c4875b5037567eb4f56cc1c5e3842f17b694e4dd