Simplified Tab Handling

[Karl02]

Working with tabs and the related settings is rather difficult in XnView, especially for new users. I think that the core of the problem is that XnView opens images in a new tab by default. So to simplify and improve working with tabs, I have the following suggestions:

1) There should be a default combined tab: browser/viewer
2) "Menu > View > Tab" should be named "Tab bar"
3) The tab bar should be displayed by default, but only if more than one tab is opened. The setting: "[X] Hide the tab bar if only one tab is opened" should be activated by default. If the tab bar is automatically hidden, the menu entry "Tab bar" or "Tab bar > Show" should be grayed out.
4) In the browser: "Context Menu > Open" (or double-clicking or pressing Enter by default) should open the selected image in the browser/viewer tab without opening a new tab. If more than one image is selected, the viewer should display them with next/previous. Double-clicking or pressing Enter by default again should switch back to the browser. The previous selection should be preserved.
5) In the browser: "Context Menu > Open in new tab" should open the selected image in a new view tab. If more than one image is selected, a new tab for each image should be opened.
6) "Settings > Interface > Tabs": "Maximum of view tabs [spin box]" could be removed

See also:
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=31328 .72MP How to use as single image viewer?
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=30310 MP 0.68, only ONE tab open please?
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=29980 Is it possible to NOT use tabs?
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=29598 Can somebody tell me how to get the browser tab to open?
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=25848 Behaviour of opening tabs
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=21039 Request: The <no file> tab should be dynamic & be used
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=23640 A tickbox setting for being better economical tab opening
- http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=23100 Maximum viewer tabs allowed opened

[Brother Gabriel-Marie]

+2 Wonderful summary. I tried do that here, and explained some of the confusion.
You warmed my little heart.