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Just documenting thoughts on some 🍚ing enhancements. Open to feedback.

Presently, the individual tabs in a tab bar are all of fixed width and controlled by the option tab_bar.tab.min_width. Most of the bar just remains empty (unless you rename your tab labels), which is more noticeable at larger resolutions. This was implemented way back when this was just a prototype.

I reckon a simple enhancement would be to have the tab items take up all available space and auto-adjust their widths, like in CSS flexbox. Though, If I look to web-browser tab bars, they seem to follow the current approach of fixed-width items.

If we do this, we'd need to figure out the right collection of config options to allow tweakability.

I've qtile installed through my distro package manager (pacman; I'm on Manjaro). That is, I haven't installed qtile from sources.
Not being a Python guy, I've no idea how to install qtile_tabbed; My distro refuses to run pip install in non managed environments and I've no idea how to approach this as a consequence. Is there a way to use your code in qtile without having to install qtile from sources or use pip install?

Dear friend,

I noticed that your README.md file does not say what file that the QTile configuration is in.

Thanks and regards,
Kenneth Stailey

It might be nice to have a bar widget that lets you see the available tabs and subtabs present. It would allow us to enable the option: tab_bar.hide_when = "always" and use the widget to track things instead of having the default tab bar take up some screen real estate.

Need to flesh out how this could work.

Hello, first of all i think this a great addon to Qtile its massively changing the wayi use my WM and i have to thank you for that.

I was wondering if there is a way to disable tabs, or at least to force only 1 tab per group. I already have a few groups and having tabs on top of groups feel like i need a few more keybindings.

I use a lot a "sticky window" that follows me throug groups, but when it comes into the Bonsai layout spanws as a tab, and then i have to merge it to the the previous tab, this also happens when i send a window from a group to another they are sent as tabs instead of splits.

or maybe im doing the moves throug groups wrong, as i used to do it with the past layouts

Thanks a lot

*edit: i added a bigger explanation.