[MonoDevelop] Tab replacement for files proposal

[Eric Schaefer]

2010/8/5 Levi Bard <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak at gmail.com>:
> I really like being able to manage my workspace of what files are
> open, and see (a large number of) them at a glance.
> I do think that the experience of discovering and browsing to
> not-currently-visible tabs could use some improvement (there have been
> some suggestions on that - one was an eclipse-style dropdown at the
> end of the tab bar), but I really REALLY dislike the xcode experience
> of always having to pick the active file from the dropdown, not being
> able to easily manage my working set of files, not being able to see
> the open files at a glance nor quickly switch between them, etc.

I second that. Most of the time people have only a couple of files
open and want to see them all at once as tabs. If four files are open,
one can see which one is visible (the highlighted tab) and which are
not. Usually I know which tab is which file without reading the text
on the tab. With a drop down one would always have to read the file
names. I agree that tabs are confusing if there are tons of them.

Regards,
Eric