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To illustrate this problem, ensure that you have at least four tabs in the left (explorer) pane (e.g. Projects, Files, Favorites, Services). Give your open projects a group and a group name such as "My Projects". Note that the Projects tab, titled "Projects - My Projects" has about half of its text cut off (unless the left pane is resized to about 700 pixels), while the other tabs (e.g. Files, Favorites, Services) have a lot of extra space. All the tabs are obviously being set to the same size, which is fine unless one of the tabs needs that extra space to display its longer label as is often the case when assigning a project group with four or more tabs open. I'll attach a couple of screenshots to show exactly what I mean.
Created attachment 51714 [details] Group name won't display though other tabs have space to spare.
Created attachment 51715 [details] explorer pane has to be excessively widened before the project group name will display
This is rather an ENHANCEMENT..
Would be fairly easy to implement with 150393 version of tabs.
*** Issue 123468 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I understand that it it would be easy to implement this with 150393 resolved. But currently editor tabs are sized according to their labels. This is what is needed for explorer tabs. Editor tabs work fine with NetBeans windowing system. So I just can't understand why same functionality from editor tabs can't be reused for explorer tabs.
the new window system in 7.1 already supports this