Bugs: Tabs overlap buttons in top right corner

[thyttan]

The bugs

In this picture we see that the file tabs draw over the buttons in the corner. The user is still able to interact with the buttons.

In this picture we see the tabs wrap to fit on screen. Now the buttons are no longer interactable with the mouse.

The pictures above show two bugs - overlap of tabs and buttons; buttons becoming unavailable to the user when the tab bar wraps (resolved by closing tabs untill it doesn't wrap anymore).

The bugs are not new. I think I've seen them since the tabs were introduced. Since they aren't too problematic I didn't report them before.

Some potential solutions or mitigating changes:

• Before starting to wrap the tab bar, push it to the left.
• Shrink tab sizes when the tab bar becomes overpopulated (like chromium/firefox browsers).
  • Additionally introduce horizontal scrolling when individual tabs become to narrow (like firefox browser).

My system

OS: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition) Browser: Chromium Version 129.0.6668.58 (Official Build) Fedora Project (64-bit)

[gfwilliams]

Thanks - yes, it's been an issue with tab overlap since tabs were introduced.

Scrolling seems like it could be a neat solution, and hopefully can just be CSS - although as you say pushing it to the left first would be neat.

One thing that might be handy is right now the tabs are hard-coded to start at 50%, but really the start point should be set to the position of the splitter in the middle.

If anyone wants to contribute a PR that'd be great!