[Usability] Tabs consistency in gnome applications

[Laurent Bigonville <l bigonville edpnet be>]

Hi,

After a little discussion with empathy's maintainer (Xavier), I would
like to have an advise of the usability team.
As described by Xavier on the bugzilla[1] tabs across gnome
applications are displayed and handled differently:

[..]
> 1) epiphany, firefox and nautilus have a fixed size for tabs;
> 2) gnome-terminal and pidgin use the full width as does empathy;
> 3) gedit uses variable size depending on the name of the edited file;
> 4) gajim uses variable size with a Max width per tab.
[..]

And what about if there is only one tab displayed? Should the tabs bar
always be present? Should it be configurable by the user?

There is already a tab policy in the GUI guidelines but it may not fits
correctly in these case where tabs may be opened/closed/moved by the
user.

So what do you think?

Ragards

Laurent Bigonville

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548260#c4