Grouped Tabs for devlopers,other with multiple projects

[RFM]

I work on various projects and as such I have several locked tabs horizontally above both file windows. And of course I’m opening other temporary tabs. When I switch to another project, I have to search through all tabs to find the ones for the project I’m working on now. Because I use the same set up for each project, the names that appear on the tabs are the same for different projects. This makes it even more difficult to find the correct tab.

What would really be great is to have a set of tabs going vertically down the left side where each vertical tab encapsulates a set of horizontal tabs. Each vertical tab will have a project name, a name that I can set/change, and when clicked, brings up the appropriate vertical tabs. A good example of this is OneNote by Microsoft, where vertically down the left side are the names of Notebooks and vertically across the top are the Section tabs. When you change which Notebook you are looking at, the horizontal Section tabs change to those used by that Notebook.

This would be extremely handy for me and all other developers or users that deal with multiple projects.

[Balderstrom]

I've seen a few filemanagers that implement "Sessions" or Tab Groups.

I'm not sure that "Down the side" is the best place for it, unless it's customizable. Implementations I have seen in FileManager's and Editor's generally put it above the File Tabs, and usually below the ToolBar.

Ah, now I remember - I saw something similiar with various Virtual Desktops that I've tested recently.
---> You can choose which "Windows" will go to which Desktop, and further you can also choose which "Windows" should appear on all desktops.
---> Eg. A window can be exclusive to a single desktop view. Or inclusive to all desktop views.

If we extrapolate, and replace "Window" with "Tab", then we wind up with Multiple "Workspaces/Sessions/Tab-Groups" that contain certain tabs, wherein the individual tabs can be made exclusive or inclusive.

Thus you might have a "My Computer" Tab, that you could set to appear in all Workspaces.

[Hacker]

RFM,
Well, you could emulate something similar with the command OPENTABS <filename.tab> where <filename.tab> is a file to which you have previously saved a set of tabs by right-clicking on an existing tab. You could save tabs for each project, like ProjectAlpha.tab, ProjectBeta.tab, etc., and then assign the OPENTABS commands to:
- a dropdown menu shown when clicking on a button in the button bar
- a part of the main menu
- the directory hotlist (Ctrl-D)

HTH
Roman

[sorcar]

Hacker gave a good workaround, but nothing beats the ease and convenience proposed by RFM. I could not really visualize Balderom's suggestion, but guess it will be an improvement. Ghisler may like to bring this feature a little ahead rather than leaving it on the backburner for an indefinite period.