Suggestion: Replace/augment repo-tab side-scrolling arrows with a drop-down list (of open tabs)

[goran-w]

When having many repository tabs (Pages) open in SourceGit, and they become too many to fit the width of the window, then side-scrolling arrows will appear at the left & right ends of the tab-area.

However, using these arrows to scroll the tabs (either by clicking or holding down) becomes tedious, and it's difficult to get an overview of all the tabs that are open. Switching back-and-forth between the left-most and right-most tabs becomes slow when they are not both on screen simultaneously.

Additionally, to view and click the '+' (Create New Page) button, one has to scroll all the way to the right-most tab.

I'd suggest either replacing the side-scrolling arrows with, or simply adding, a button for popping up a vertical drop-down (showing all the open tabs) where the desired tab can be selected and quickly switched to. This would give (vertical) screen-space and easy overview for a lot more open tabs than the horizontal tab-area can display simultaneously, and would make it a breeze to switch back-and-forth between the left-most (top-most) and right-most (bottom-most) tabs.

Also, I suggest moving the '+' (Create New Page) button outside the tab-scroll-area, so that it's always visible. That way, there would be no need for side-scrolling to find it.

NOTE: I'm aware that there are (quicker) keyboard shortcuts for most of these actions, but using the mouse should not be unnecessarily tedious regardless...

[Doodeletion]

I agree that it can be hard to find a specific repo if you have many open. I also agree that having a dropdown instead of scrolling sideways would be better and it would also fix the issue with the + button.

But I think even with a dropdown it might be a bit annoying to find repos, especially as the repo list is then distributed horizontally and vertically at the same time.

How about a separate view designated to switching between repos and workspaces? Lots of space to display all of the workspaces' repos and even include search functionality.

[love-linger]

You can use Ctrl+T/⌘+T to open a new tab (welcome page) directly.
You can use Ctrl+Tab/⌘+⌥+→ to go to next tab directly.

[goran-w]

@love-linger Thank you for moving the '+' button out of the tab-scroll-area!

The keyboard shortcuts are helpful for navigating, but don't help much with the overview of tabs, and still a lot of repeated Ctrl+Tab keypresses are necessary to switch back-and-forth between distant tabs. A vertical drop-down would be able to display a lot more tabs simultaneously, and switching directly to a distant one is quicker.

@Doodeletion I think a vertical drop-down would suffice, possibly combined with the one for workspaces. Search functionality could be included as well - see for example how the the Google Chrome browser has a vertical drop-down button to the left of its tab-area, which shows "Open tabs", "Recently closed" and also a search/filter-box at the top...

[love-linger]

Done. You can download the latest CI build from Github Action.

[goran-w]

Super, thank you!!! 🦸