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It's probably not a big deal to enable closing tabs by clicking on it with the middle mouse-button. Targeting this small x-button sometimes drives me crazy, esp. when closing a bunch of tabs. Frank-Michael
I have added the USABILITY keyword. I tend to also add the A11Y keyword but as I understand it, it is only for issues related to the US act asking that all new software is accessible. Still, I consider it an accessibility problem - the need to target a small square is pretty difficult for people with not so good eyesight.
Created attachment 34706 [details] Patch fixing the problem
I have attached a small patch which fixes the problem. Please consider to incorporate this patch into the main trunk, then in my eyes the issue could be resolved as fixed.
Thanks for a patch, good work, I really appreciate it. integrated into main trunk: Checking in AbstractTabCellRenderer.java; /cvs/core/swing/tabcontrol/src/org/netbeans/swing/tabcontrol/plaf/AbstractTabCellRenderer.java,v <-- AbstractTabCellRenderer.java new revision: 1.9; previous revision: 1.8
FYI, size of x button will be solved in separate reports, thanks.
It should be possible to close all kind of tabs with a middle-mouse-click. Currently this only works for documents in the editor but it should work esp. for tabs in the output window, too.
moser please file new issue for output tabs in core/output IZ component. Output tabs differs from window system ones and has to be treated specifically, thank you.
Don't know why to make noise by closing this issue and opening another one. This issueis exactly about closing tabs, not only about closing editor tabs. So it was most appropriate. But here you are: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=151017
Thanks. output tabs are different implementation owned by other engineer and I don't know much about it, that's the reason.