GNOME bugs concerning tabs
A list of GNOME bugs that concern tabs. These have been summarised in the tab implementation review.
HIG:
Bug 440274 - The HIG on tabs is not user friendly, it should allow multi lines.
Bug 72101 - Hig should specify a tab implementations
Bug 416110 - Tabs in GNOME
Bug 87764 - Of tabs, MDI and Window menus (discusses keyboard shortcuts)
Bug 116647 - GtkNotebook: tab states
Bug 326953 - The arrows that appears when the tab bar is full is very tiny.
Bug 110540 - GtkNotebook should use multiple rows
Bug 167693 - Tabs should slide over (sometimes) when adding a new tab
Bug 377441 - Make notebook arrows scroll the tab view
Bug 501007 - GtkNotebook lacks a tab names dropdown in the tab-bar
Bug 116650 - "action area" for GtkNotebook (e.g. for tab close button)
Bug 352124 - Tab easily moved inadvertantly
Bug 129643 – Tab management should be standardized
Bug 167693 - Tabs should slide over (sometimes) when adding a new tab
Bug 330676 - Tabs 'disappear' in core Gnome applications (suggests optional dynamic adjustment of tab widths; long discussion here)
GNOME Terminal:
Bug 132173 - [RFE]: Notify text changes on non-active tabs
Bug 155561 - Display notification of a beep in an tabbed shell.
Galeon/Epiphany:
Bug 462780 – Close all but this tab?
Bug 300537 – new tab is not visible when ctrl-clicking link from the rightmost tab
Bug 83560 – Consider using close all windows instead of quit (Galeon)
Bug 116519 - tab width should be dynamically adjusted
Gedit:
Bug 547848 – gedit should not show a tab if only one document open
Bug 456959 – Remove custom implementation of tab reordering and dragging
Bug 163494 - Can't Ctrl-pageUp/pageDown to switch tabs
Bug 160747 - browsing tabs: ctrl-pg up, ctrl-pg dn
Bug 555753 - Open New tab on double clicking the empty area in tab space
Bug 160747 - Browsing tabs: ctrl-pg up, ctrl-pg dn (marked as NOTABUG)
Bug 588702 - Ctrl+T should open a new tab
Empathy:
Bug 547848 - Empathy next tab or previous tab doesnt cycle.