Feature Request: widest tabs to handle long title bars

Display long paths in console and file-explorer

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Hi,

I've just started evaluating Groupy and I like it so far but as a developer I have many console (git bash) and file explorer windows open and I would really like to see more of the title bar, e.g. the path for the console or file explorer.

Perhaps Groupy could behave more like Google Chrome, where the tabs are wider and automatically shrink as necessary (also include Chrome's pause before growing the tabs on close to allow multi-close). This is all to help me quickly select and switch between similar windows.

Other ideas that would help me 

  1. The tab should grow as much as necessary (no arbitrary width limit as in Chrome tab). Perhaps just divide the window width by the number of tabs?
  2. When space is short allow clever ellipsifying, i.e. put an ellipsis in the *middle* of a long path - the beginning and end of the path are perhaps more unique.
  3. Display the full title in a tooltip.

 

Thanks, keep up the great work - your app is going to help keep me sane!

David Kerr

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your request to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We really do appreciate your feedback, Thanks.

 

Basj

Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi @basj, is there any reply from "Stardock support team" ? It seems that most threads ends with forwarding to them without any follow-up.

To the subject I would suggest to shorten the tab's title from the left instead of from the right since usually all tabs starts the same but ends with the identifiable part (e.g. name of opened file). Configurable setting (with left / middle / right options) would be ideal.

Also the possibility to rename tabs (like in Windows Tabs) would be great.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting verglor, reply 2

Hi @basj, is there any reply from "Stardock support team" ? It seems that most threads ends with forwarding to them without any follow-up.
End of verglor's quote

So far there is no news on this one.

Thank you,

 

Basj,

Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I have just been trialling Groupy and I was going to make a feature request for the same thing. In much the same way as Firefox has always had about:config settings for the min and max widths allowed for a tab, Groupy could benefit from the same thing.

For comparison's sake, Firefox currently renders tabs between 90 and 215px, while Groupy defaults to 170px, which is roughly the same as a Windows taskbar button when labels are turned on.