Add a scrolling bar to the tab menu
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Description
@ffissore This is a follow up of the issue https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/issues/2765 AKA "**How do you know which tab you're editing?**" that was resolved with https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/commit/2339049c0fd0cd7d215adc659f044a999a9dfeca, thank you again.
Working with the IDE is now (in my case) day and night. But there is a last one improvement I wish to see in the IDE: a scrolling bar in the tab menu. I think the top and bottom arrow in the tab menu should be replaced by a scroll bar. Not only it's more intuitive, it is **_WAY SPEEDIER**_.
Also, the tab bar should have a left and right arrow to effectively scroll the tabs (like asked in https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/issues/1193, it was in 2012).
Is this feasible?
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing issue #2765 and commit 2339049c0fd0cd7d215adc659f044a999a9dfeca to understand the existing tab-menu behavior, then trace the Arduino IDE 1.x tab-menu entry point. The work is complete when the menu has a scrollbar and the tab bar supports left and right scrolling as requested here and in issue #1193.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100