Question about Tab Pinning and Tab Strip Organization

Question about Tab Pinning and Tab Strip Organization

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Hello,

When I pin tabs, I notice it puts them at the beginning of their "row" within the tab strip, however the tab strip rows themselves still seem to rotate based on what entry I select. So for example, let's say I have 3 rows of tabs - a pinned tab will go to the far left of the bottom row in the tab strip. But then if I select a tab in the top row, that row becomes the bottom row and the pinned one goes to the top. Select the pinned one (or anything in the top row), and that row comes back down to the bottom again (and the pinned tab moves with it).

I presume this is by design - seems like the "most recent" session always becomes the bottom row? But I'll be honest, for me it actually makes it harder for me to keep track of tabs with the tab rows constantly switching like that. I was thinking that pinning would do something more like in Visual Studio or SQL Management Studio, where pinned tabs are always in the top row (starting from the left and working right). If the pinned tabs still move around with the rotating rows, then that reduces the usefulness of pinning them for me unfortunately.

Is there any way to change the behavior of how the rows in the tab strip behave? I see we can turn off multi-row tabs (presumably that just leaves a single row of horizontally-scrolled tabs) - but that isn't really what I wanted to do. I like the multi-row tabs, I'd just like them to stay put once they are established, at least within a session 🙂 (unless manually rearranged, of course). Finally, I notice there is also a "sort priority" option in the "user interface" settings for an entry - not sure how that comes into play here.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

Best regards,

David Willis

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