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Feature Request: Don't shift focus when moving tabs between windows

Open antonycourtney opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

[ Submitted by Matt Mooney via CWS Support -- see entry in CWS support for contact info ]

TLDR: When re-arranging individual tabs in the Tabli pop-out or in-place UI, the display order for active windows should not change after placing a tab into a different or new window.

Detailed Description: When user is actively working to either organize, save or close tabs and windows in the Tabli UI, the order of displayed windows should not change in the middle of this activity, and the order should update and sort after the user moves focus off of the application so as not to interrupt flow and force the user to re-orient and search for the windows they were working with that are now on-screen (or even off-screen) in an entirely different presentation order.

CURRENT Behavior:

When re-arranging individual tabs in the Tabli UI (both popout mode and in-place), the sort logic is triggered after releasing a tab into the new target window, from its' current window (eg: user activity, organizing open tabs). This disrupts the organizing activity and causes the display order of all open tabs / windows to change dramatically or shift off screen entirely.

STEPS to Reproduce

  1. Open a bunch of tabs, across multiple windows.
  2. Open the Tabli popout UI
  3. Expand open windows (some or all, doesn't seem to matter)
  4. Move tabs from one window to the other, at random, and at some point this will trigger a display order resort.
  5. Quietly seeth/rage and search for the window you were just moving tabs to or from.

POSSIBLE Solution

Place a hold on ANY UI sort / display order updates until the UI loses focus, preserving display order for that user engagement. (Adjust current logic) OR Until a "Refresh" button is pushed manually (enhancement)

PLEASE fix this, and while you're at it, please expose the CSS via an .INI or config file so that we can manually select the colors for the Tabli pop-out window / in-place editor. This is the ONLY application that I am not able to that I use regularly, and unfortunately the dark option, while an amazing step in the correct direction, is too jarring for daily use, and I would love to be able to get more in line with https://draculatheme.com/ which I adapt to all applications through supported modification or dll / resource hacking.

Please contact me if you desire any further input, more than happy to assist. And thank you!

Cheers!

antonycourtney avatar Feb 06 '19 06:02 antonycourtney