Single-click Option to Select Tab in Window Panel
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Just a question for the Window Panel. The panel lists all active tabs. Why can't single-click select a tab? I need to double-click now and it is not convenient.
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@littlechuan The window panel is useful for organising tabs. Click, Ctrl+Click, and Shift+Click can be used to select multiple tabs before deleting them or dragging them in or out of tab stacks, etc.
Changing the active tab is not necessarily what a user wants to do. The tab bar is fine for that.
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There is a way to detect CTRL or SHIFT(scan code) is down when a click is done. I don't see why there is a conflict between multi-selection and a single click to open the tab.
The tab bar doesn't have long titles so it is hard to know if a tab is what I want especially when the tab is grouped with multiple tabs inside. And the pinned tab is quite hard to select to pick because it is too narrow.if there is an option for single click to select like the bookmark, it will be much more convenient.
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@littlechuan If single-click activates the tab in the Window Panel as it does on the tab bar, there won't be any way to organise your tabs in the Window Panel without changing the active tab.
Tabs within tab-stacks can be selected easily using the thumbnail previews.
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It's not as convenient as using the window tab. You probably don't have a wide screen window. Need to move the mouse far away and focus on it, then a delay to show the previews, then move mouse down to pick one.
I also told you the pinned tabs are hard to focus.
While the windows tab, everything is shown with long titles.
There are a lot of ways to get around it. Even you can design it to use "middle mouse click" to activate a tab. "middle click" is not doing anything now.
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I corrected the first post and moved it to the feature requests forum. The Window Panel only shows tabs in the current window.
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@littlechuan This option is already available. I only just noticed it. Open Settings, Panel to enable it.
If this option is enabled, one can still select tabs for organising purposes, but one must keep the Ctrl key held down. That may be a price worth paying for users with lots of pinned tabs or those who like to disable the Tab Bar and use the Window Panel instead.
The Tab bar can also be placed on the side to show long titles on a wide-screen monitor.
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Thanks for pointing this out @Pesala, I missed the configuration too. I've been using the window panel instead of the tab bar like you described and it is great!