Bug 426317

Summary: Sidebar tab with label
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: andreas <kainz.a>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: proposal tab layout with label on active tab

Description andreas 2020-09-08 20:45:12 UTC
Created attachment 131495 [details]
proposal tab layout with label on active tab

SUMMARY
When have an label of the active tab you can reduce height and it's easier to know what the tab use used for.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-09-09 04:06:07 UTC
In fact that option was considered during the redesign that produced these tabs.

However the problem with this idea is that it re-arranges the tabs to the right of the one with a title, which would break your muscle memory and make it hard to navigate to other tabs, because the click targets would always be shifting around. The compromise we came up with was what ended up getting merged: icons-only tabs, with the name of the current view below the tab bar.

So I think it's gotta stay the way it is, sorry. :)
Comment 2 andreas 2020-09-09 06:39:24 UTC
thanks for the feedback.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-09-09 14:05:24 UTC
You're welcome, and sorry to have to reject the idea. :)