[MonoDevelop] Stripped down GTK# notebook tabs for monodevelop

[Anirudh]

Hi,

I wasn't liking the default tab display of MonoDevelop. It used up too much
space, combined with C#'s usual long filenames, I'd see only two or three
tabs at a go. I tried hacking a more frugal tab label system, and was sort
of successful.

I changed MonoDevelop.Components.TabLabel and
Monodevelop.ide.gui.sdiworkspacewindow and made the following changes:

1. Removed icon and the close button - Ctrl+W and middle click works fine
for me.
2. Stripped text to 7 characters and added ellipsis.

I've attached before and after screenshots. You can take a look and get a
better idea of what I have in mind.
The best option is to settle for a middle-ground and write a system which
automatically shortens titles when there are more tabs opened. Firefox has a
robust implementation of this, and it doesn't seem simple to implement.

I wanted your opinions on my change, whether something like this would help
improve MonoDevelop.

Thanks,
Andy

-- 
Fourth Year Undergraduate Student, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
http://anirudhsanjeev.org
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