Post #2671170
2026-05-10 08:28 UTC
visual studio has this almost decent thing where only the most recent tabs are visible but the rest are pushed into a list
however
- the order management of the visible tabs is random unpredictable shit when new tabs are opened
- list ordering is alphabetical, not MRU
- the list is not searchable
- the list does not show which items are already shown in the tabs list
- the list only shows the opened items, for anything else you need to go to an entirely different list
#ui
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@archo@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-10 08:35
what if it was possible to instead reorder the list of openable things by MRU (most recently used) by default, show opened file indicators there as well, allow closing only via the context menu, and ditch tabs entirely? probably wouldn't work for things like browsers necessarily, since there are tons of per-tab context that can't all be serialized (e.g. open websocket connections) - but might work better for editors #ui