Hi folks, sorry to revive a "Done" thread, but I don't think the current solution for this is the best one.
I really like how Firefox and Edge implements this, where you have an always-shown thin bar of tab icons which, when hovered, expand to a wider section with full tab names visible.
As things currently stand, we're forced to do one of:
- Auto-hide the sidebar, which means it's not possible to quickly go to a tab you know, as you have to move your mouse to a precise spot (especially if you don't have the app full-screen), then wait for the animation, and parse the currently available tabs
- Have the sidebar fully-shown all the time, which wastes space
- Shrink the sidebar and have it only show the icons all the time, which is still wasteful as the sidebar is still thick, and there's no easy way of showing the tab titles to find a tab you're looking for. Double-clicking the side still requires precise mouse input to a specific line, which is still annoying. Cherry on top is that this expansion does not have an animation.
The ideal solution I think would be to have an option of a permanently-pinned one-icon-wide side "line" which includes the tab icons, and expands (by overlapping, not shifting things around) to a bigger section which shows the full tab titels when hovered over.
Ideally this new sidebar would not be a "hovering pill", which while looks good and native, wastes a lot of space.
