[Qt-creator] Tabs suggestion

[Paulo Jnkml]

Just an idea.
I would like to hear some comments of users and developers if possible.

I'm not the first one to talk about tabs vs combo box, so apparently 
there's some interest.

In a tabbed implementation could save space if, what is now the file 
selection combo box, contained the name followed by a combo box with the 
<select symbol> functionality in the same widget.

Now we have:

[filename combo box]   [<select symbol> combo box]   [line, col]

We would have:

[filename1 tab [<select symbol> combo box]]   [filename2 tab]   
[filename3 tab]   [ < > ]   [line, col]

Here the [ < > ] represent either left and right buttons or a combo box 
to access the other tabs that don't fit in the window.
The [<select symbol> combo box] would be only active for the selected 
file on that tab.
If a new file is selected it would show up. Example, if I clicked the 
above filename2 I would get that tab selected for the current view and 
the associated symbol combo box displayed on that tab as follows:

[filename1 tab]   [filename2 tab [<select symbol> combo box]]   
[filename3 tab]   [ < > ]   [line, col]


In the case of a split view, both views would get one of these tabbed 
widgets, just as they do now for the current widget, but smaller =D.
For example if I split the view left | right, and select filename1 on 
the left view and filename2 on the right I would get the following:

[filename1 tab [<select symbol> combo box]]   [filename2 tab]   [ < > 
]   [line, col]   |   [filename2 tab [<select symbol> combo box]]   
[filename3 tab]   [ < > ]   [line, col]


How about that? Comments?

=D