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Bug 77258

Summary:	[Presentations] Don't hide 'X' close button on inactive editor tabs
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	web
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	CC:	antonel.pazargic, daniel_megert, denis.roy, imajeffs, remy.suen
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description web

2004-10-28 22:04:07 EDT

Showing the 'X' close button only when an inactive editor tab is moused over
makes it harder/slower to close an inactive tab and easier to accidently close a
tab instead of switching to it.  Keep the 'X' close button visible on all editor
tabs.

Safari on the Mac, for example, handles the tab close buttons this way.

Comment 1 Kim Horne

2004-10-29 09:56:50 EDT

Views also have this behaviour.

Comment 2 Paul Webster

2006-09-28 15:14:13 EDT

Is this still a problem in 3.3?

PW

Comment 3 Jeff Smith

2007-06-18 17:55:31 EDT

I don't understand why this and the similar (52435) are closed as if not important. I know there are many who find this issue time consuming, and some have lost work because of it. Just make the other X grayed out rather than invisible, please.

See discussion today (2007-06-18) in newsgroup eclipse.newcomer
 Subject: 'X' in tab disappears; bad design!

Comment 4 Paul Webster

2007-06-19 07:42:23 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't understand why this and the similar (52435) are closed as if not
> important. I know there are many who find this issue time consuming, and some
> have lost work because of it. Just make the other X grayed out rather than
> invisible, please.

This is closed because no one is working on it.  bug 52435 is closed because they fixed it for view stacks.

I'll consider patches if anyone has one.

PW

Comment 5 Denis Roy

2007-06-22 09:32:43 EDT

Changes requested on bug 193523

Comment 6 Remy Suen

2007-08-18 14:31:50 EDT

Does CTabFolder actually have public API to show the close button on the unselected tabs?

Comment 7 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:07:58 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

Comment 8 Eclipse Genie

2021-10-10 05:38:18 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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