Currently there are only options to change the location of the sidebar tabs for
* 1: bottom/top (tab in one line). When you have more than ~3 enabled you usually don't see all and have to click like 5 times to get where you want...to do there what you really wanted to do * 2: and left/right for a layout with one tab per line (which wastes a lot of horizontal space)
It would be great if there would be a left/right vertical sidebar option, so the tab names are written are written vertically and the tabs are ordered vertically.
**Example (Android studio):** 
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The tab options are those provided [by GTK](https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-Standard-Enumerations.html#GtkP...) the GUI toolkit Geany uses.
Note that right click on a tab shows a popup list of tabs to select from.
You can call [`gtk_label_set_angle(label, 90)`](https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-angle) to make the tab like that. It would probably be prudent to do it from a callback on [`GtkNotebook::page-added`](https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkNotebook.html#GtkNotebook-page-ad...) so it can be automatically applied to each tab like those added by plugins.
Would probably have to change packing of the close icon to below not beside.
There is no close icon (button) in the sidebar tabs.
There is no close icon (button) in the sidebar tabs.
Ahh, yes, thinking of file tabs, ok, just needs "somebody" to do it then.
@elextr @codebrainz
This code applies rotation accordingly and works for Geany-own tabs as well tabs inserted by plugins.
``` GtkNotebook *sidebarNotebook = GTK_NOTEBOOK(ui_lookup_widget(geany->main_widgets->window, "notebook3")); for (GList *iterator = gtk_container_get_children(sidebarNotebook); iterator; iterator = iterator->next) { GtkLabel *sidebarLabel = gtk_notebook_get_tab_label(sidebarNotebook, iterator->data); gtk_label_set_angle(sidebarLabel, 90); } ``` You can do what you want with that piece, public domain.
As noted it's definitely possible and not hard to-do. As I did on my own in the plugin closing.
Closed #2107.
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