[Feature]: Align tab close button to the right
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Description
Before submitting
- I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
Area
apps/desktop (in-app browser / right-panel tab strip)
Problem or use case
Tab close (×) sits on the left of the tab title. That matches Safari / Chrome-on-macOS, but in T3 it reads as IDE chrome, where close-on-the-right (VS Code, Chrome-on-Windows, Firefox) is the expected target.
Left-aligned close is easy to miss or hit by accident when selecting a tab, and it fights the muscle memory of every other editor-style tab strip.
Proposed solution
Move the close button to the right of the tab title on the in-app browser and other right-panel tabs that share the same control.
Keep hover-to-reveal / active-tab visibility as they are today; this is only a layout change.
Related: not a duplicate of #4146 (adding a panel close control) or #11137 (new-tab selector).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in apps/desktop and locate the in-app browser and right-panel tab-strip components that share the tab close control. Move the close button to the right of the tab title while preserving hover-to-reveal and active-tab visibility, then verify the affected tab strips visually.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- desktop, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 74/100