Tabs

[Geert Janssens]

On Monday 9 August 2010, terry_and_pearl at yahoo.com wrote:
> >Personally I think this is a good idea. Since you have contributed to the
> >source code in the past, I invite you to send in a patch for this
> > improvement as well ?
> >
> >
> >Geert
> 
> I would love to so do if I had the expertise.
> 
> The code I submitted was the code for the financial calculator. The
>  underlying code and not the code to tie the calculator into the display.
>  Someone else did that part. I have never coded for a GUI and have never
>  had the desire to learn how to do so - otherwise I would gladly do as you
>  suggest.
> 
> For the GUI, all I can reasonably do is make suggestions.
> 
That's fine as well. My reply was really an invitation, not a demand. Thank 
you for your suggestions.

Reading the link John posted, it looks like this behaviour is tied deeply into 
gtk+/gnome and apparently the gtk+ devs still haven't come to an agreement on 
how it should be fixed properly. I guess we will be stuck with this behaviour 
for some time still.

If the tabs are getting on to you nerves, you could always opt to open new 
pages in new windows instead of tabs. It's an option somewhere in the 
preferences.

Geert