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Bug 211617 - tabs divided by project
Summary: tabs divided by project
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205943
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal (vote)
Assignee: Stanislav Aubrecht
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Blocks: 223979
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Reported: 2012-04-24 07:47 UTC by wieszos
Modified: 2013-03-10 22:42 UTC (History)
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Description wieszos 2012-04-24 07:47:09 UTC 
Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.1 (Build 201112071828)
Operating System = Linux version 3.0.0-17-generic running on amd64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_23
Runtime = OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 20.0-b11

Hi,

It would be very good to separate somehow tabs of opened files by projects, as its done in Opera Browser (drag tab to add to the separate bucket).

Regards,
Piotr Walków
Comment 1 Petr Somol 2012-04-24 08:02:19 UTC 
It is true I found a similar feature quite useful in UltraEdit where the tabs were colored according to file type. Some way of visual grouping of opened tabs according to Project would probably make things easier when lots of files are opened at once.

Reassigning to Rich for expert opinion.
Comment 2 richgunther 2012-04-24 15:14:20 UTC 
Grouping of tabs, sure.  By color, not as the primary indication of category (I'm colorblind, so I'm never going to advocate for this).  We could group them by dragging one tab onto another and then popping a dialog, titled "Create Tab Category", with a textbox for the Category name.  This is ala IOS folder creation, so it's becoming a recognizable convention for lumping items together.

Rich
Comment 3 Marian Mirilovic 2012-04-25 10:33:45 UTC 
see also Bug 199257 - how to show the project wise the list of opened tabs in drop down menu
Comment 4 richgunther 2012-04-30 19:36:48 UTC 
How would you propose visually separating the groups in the tabstrip?  Would you make multiple rows of tabs, one for each group?
Comment 5 wieszos 2012-12-18 14:12:22 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> How would you propose visually separating the groups in the tabstrip?  Would
> you make multiple rows of tabs, one for each group?

Hi,

Simple grouping would be great, you drag a tab on another tab and then those two create a group-tab. Dragging third tab on that group-tab would add that tab to it.

A group-tab has an arrow icon to merge (hide, shrink) tabs inside. 
After the tabs inside a group-tab have been merged (shrinked), the group-tab has another icon to enable unshrinking them again.

With such thing as mentioned above would be lovely that tabs from different projects would group automatically into group-tabs.

Regards Wieszos
Comment 6 markiewb 2013-03-10 22:42:12 UTC 
Rows of tabs per project?

See http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205943

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205943 ***