Only show close buttons for active or hovered tabs

Bug #1205236 reported by Danielle Foré
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Fix Released
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Victor Martinez

Bug Description

Something I noticed Safari does that is very interesting is only show close buttons on Active or Hovered tabs. I think it's important to distinguish that the close button appears not just when that area of the tab is hovered but if any part of the tab is hovered. We could consider even go a step further and say if any part of the tabbar is hovered. I like this for two reasons:

1. It reduces visual noise. Having the close button over and over and over gets very noisy.

2. For touch it means that you can't accidentally hit the close button when you meant to select a tab instead. However showing the close button when the tab is active means that it's still accessible (which it wouldn't be if we showed it only on hover).

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Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in granite:
status: New → Confirmed
milestone: none → 0.3-beta1
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Cameron Norman (cameronnemo) wrote :

One problem I noticed with this is that you have to click to a tab to close it on touch.

Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in granite:
milestone: isis-beta1 → 0.3.1
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Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

Cameron, that's true. But I think that's acceptable here so as to avoid mis-tapping and closing a tab rather than switching to it.

Changed in granite:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Victor Martinez (victored)
RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a)
Changed in granite:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in granite:
milestone: 0.3.1 → isis-beta1
Changed in granite:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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