The tab bar showed only a limited number of tabs before https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/89 has been merged. I liked that behavior because that way the tab bar was automatically kept clean and showed the most relevant currently opened documents. The new tab bar is completely useless as soon as one has many documents opened concurrently. So I'd like to see the old behavior back again, e.g. as a feature which can be optionally enabled.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/101
Ok, seems that changes is more controversial than thought. I added a option to have the old behavior "back" in some similar way but still using the "normal" tab bar. Could you try https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/101 Thanks!
I've already commented on the MR. So thanks again for the quick response. If the MR is merged the bug can be resolved.
Git commit 14e0da664a2733dee652795323b128ecbcf85c5c by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 15/09/2020 at 13:59. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'. implement optional limit for number of tabs and LRU replacement this allows to have the "old" behavior of pre 20.08 as option it is not exactly the same as in e.g. 20.04, as we still use the normal QTabBar, but it should feel equivalent enough as positive side effect, the user is no able to configure how many tabs he wants to have as maximum, default is 0, aka unlimited, before this was based on same heuristics M +17 -0 kate/kateapp.h M +24 -0 kate/kateconfigdialog.cpp M +1 -0 kate/kateconfigdialog.h M +89 -7 kate/katetabbar.cpp M +27 -1 kate/katetabbar.h M +5 -13 kate/kateviewspace.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/commit/14e0da664a2733dee652795323b128ecbcf85c5c