kovidgoyal/kitty

Tab bar to the side

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#2,305 opened on Jan 21, 2020

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Description

On modern wide screen monitors we have a lot of horizontal space. iTerm2 on MacOs provide feature that allow you attach tab bar to any of screen edges. Kitty allow attach the tab bar only to top or bottom edges. I found hyper`s plugin that allowing that - https://github.com/randallsquared/hyper-vertical-tabs Use it as example ;) I realy miss tabs-to-the-side feature in linux terminals :( It be very very cool if kitty does it.

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Research direction
Study the existing tab bar code in kitty and the hyper vertical tabs plugin. Identify how to change the tab bar orientation from top/bottom to side. Focus on the layout logic and rendering changes needed to support vertical tabs.
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
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45