Re: GTK+ plans for 3.22

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 07:04 +0100, Rick Opper wrote:
> If you move the add tab button to the tab bar, then how do you open a
> new tab if only one document (tab) is open? In Web, if only one
> document is open there is NO tab bar, thus no button...

The request from design team is for us to always show the tab bar.
Obviously we can't do that right now without design changes for the
notebook; the single tab state has looked really bad since 3.12. I
trust the designers plan to make the tab bar look non-terrible when
only one tab is present, but I haven't seen any mockup for this state.

Always showing the tab bar also solves an important user experience
problem: that dragging tabs from one window to another sometimes
requires the creation of an extra useless tab in one or both windows in
order to display the tab bar.

Michael