is it possible to have in dolphin settings a feature as Konsol or kate: increase tab width to window width ? This improvement is needed for people who desire a fixed width [421141](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421141) or people like me who do not like to play to much with their mouse & more consistent/coherent with other kde app regards
It is technically possible, but there is a general discontent with the tab width we have not only in Dolphin but in KDE in general. AFAIK the consensus so far is that we generally want wider tabs, but we don't want them to span the whole width of the window because this has usability disadvantages (e.g. requires a lot of mouse movement to close multiple tabs in a row). It would be better to generally improve the tab bar experience in KDE instead of adding more options.
> It would be better to generally improve the tab bar experience in KDE instead of adding more options. As far as I know, when the user/programmer community is split over the usability of a feature, what's better than setting an option to achieve "consensus" in the free software world (especially since it is technically possible)? Isn't that one of the distinctive elements between KDE with GNOME? so KDE programmers will have plenty of time to "THINK" about how to bring users together around a new experience with the tab bar "recurent issue".
>>there is a general discontent with the tab width we have not only >>in Dolphin but in KDE in general. AFAIK the consensus so far is that >>we generally want wider tabs, but we don't want them to span the >>whole width of the window because this has usability disadvantages >>(e.g. requires a lot of mouse movement to close multiple tabs in a row). >As far as I know, when the user/programmer community is split >over the usability of a feature, what's better than setting an option >to achieve "consensus" in the free software world (especially since >it is technically possible)? >Isn't that one of the distinctive elements between KDE with GNOME? > >so KDE programmers will have plenty of time to "THINK" about how >to bring users together around a new experience with the tab bar >"recurent issue". As I said: AFAIK there is a consensus that needs to be implemented.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 413707 ***