Removal of the tab bar

davidvontamar
Hello,

I cannot find any setting to hide the tab bar.

Is there some hack I can do in order to remove the tab bar in Zotero 7?

I recall that with Firefox I used to modify or remove different parts of the UI with CSS files.

I'm using Debian.
  • hcsoso
    +1
  • Zhoclzo
    +1
    See the solution here
    https://github.com/zotero/zotero/pull/2049
    But it doesn't work with Zotero 7
  • tobiasrenkin
    +1. It takes space and I have never had more than one tab open. Please make it possible to hide, or even auto-hide it when there is only one tab.
  • wmstack
    +1. It would be nice to toggle the tab bar and the toolbar when reading web pages or pdfs, as it makes for a more immersive experience.
  • wmstack
    I have created a plugin that can hide both the tab bar as well as the annotation toolbar.
  • rpalmer47
    PLEASE add an option to hide the tab bar. Such a waste of space. A whole bar, just to redundantly say My Library.
  • dstillman
    Just to be clear, the tab bar is…for tabs. It's where PDFs, EPUBs, and snapshots open. If you're never opening files, or only opening all three file types externally, you might not ever have more than one tab currently, but in future versions it will be possible to open other things in tabs (e.g., notes) and open tab groups via the tabs menu (which is also in the bar), so hiding it permanently wouldn't make sense. Auto-hiding it when there's only one tab could be possible (if tab-group functionality was also accessible from a menu), but we don't think it's really worth having the whole UI jump every time you open something in a tab. Future versions will also support opening multiple windows, and even a single tab serves as a title bar in that case.

    Being able to hide the tab bar and toolbar when in full-screen mode is a separate matter. Firefox has a "Hide Toolbars" context-menu option when in full-screen mode that moves those off the top of the screen, except when you move the cursor to the top, and that works pretty well, so we're likely to do something like that.
  • tobiasrenkin
    I use Zotero strictly as a bibliography manager. I have other tools that I prefer for taking notes, reading pdfs, etc. I understand you want to push the functionality of Zotero in that direction, but in the meanwhile it would still be good to be able to hide parts of the UI that some people don't need.
  • cadadr
    @dstillman I don't see myself ever having tabs open for notes, let alone groups of tabs. I only use notes for little summaries of items they relate to. I have a separate tool for reading notes or personal notes. A lot of users seem to feel similarly and not have a use case for all these things.

    There also seems to be an option to open files in a new window. If a user wishes to disable tabs but use Zotero to view PDFs/EPUBs etc, you can just default to opening them in a new window.

    Also please please let the titlebar be. Just let the app use the system title bar. I think that's the case in Windows, and it looks much better. I am almost inclined to downgrade to Zotero 6 because of these issues...
  • dstillman
    edited 13 days ago
    Also please please let the titlebar be. Just let the app use the system title bar. I think that's the case in Windows, and it looks much better.
    @cadadr: If you're not even sure if something is true, it's best to avoid making a strong qualitative statement about it. Zotero doesn't have a title bar on Windows. Like all modern browsers and various other modern programs, Zotero 7 no longer uses the system title bar on any platform (except on some esoteric Linux desktop environments). On Windows, it combines the window controls with the menu bar, with the rest being a draggable area. On most Linux DEs, it does the exact same thing. (On macOS, which has a global menu bar at the top of the screen, it combines the window controls with the tab bar and sync controls.) If you're asking for the ability to remove the tab bar to save vertical space, it's a bit strange to also ask for a pointless title bar back. The tab bar at least has other potential uses.
  • cadadr
    @dstillman I misremembered something about an app that I used on Windows until a couple months ago. If you think that gives you the right to demean me, well that tells me a lot about you.

    A lot of the most popular ones of those "modern" apps, including Google Chrome, VS Code, Sublime Text, and Firefox itself, have an option to use the system's own window decorations. That list also includes MS Office suite of apps, if I remember correctly. Well, if I don't, I'll know because most likely you'll mock me like you did above.

    Window decorations aren't pointless, they have a variety of functions on all major platforms, for example ample space for window titles, and a right click menu that allows the user to inter alia move/pin the window between/to workspaces or virtual desktops. It does make sense that some users want that and hence why many major apps have the option.

    I have used Zotero for a decade-ish, and I have always recommended it to my colleagues, my professors, and even taught how to use it in a couple cases. But that won't ever happen again, not in the face of this infantilising and disrespectful attitude of yours just because I took the time to write some feedback.
  • dstillman
    edited 13 days ago
    @cadadr: No idea why you're responding like this. Asking you — someone who's not a regular user of these forums — not to enter a discussion and make a bold subjective statement about something you don't actually remember isn't demeaning or mocking you. It's just asking you to try not to do that so that we can focus on actual details.

    You also didn't talk in your initial post about any lost functionality, or ask for it to be an option — you just suggested that we were doing something ugly and unreasonable that should be reverted and that might be worth downgrading over, as if it's not the standard behavior of most modern apps that people use.
    a right click menu that allows the user to inter alia move/pin the window between/to workspaces or virtual desktops
    We already support the standard title bar context-menu options in the custom menu bar on Windows. I don't know if we can do so on Linux. Assuming that's what you're using, you're welcome to start a new thread about either exposing those options or adding an option to toggle the system title bar on Linux DEs where it doesn't already appear. There's almost no chance we'd add an option to add back the title bar on Windows — the only remaining difference is the available width for the title, and tabs could always be wider if that was a concern — so it remains an argument against being able to remove the tab bar.
    That list also includes MS Office suite of apps, if I remember correctly.
    No, Office uses a custom toolbar that, like Zotero, incorporates other UI elements and exposes the standard window controls and window context-menu options.
Sign In or Register to comment.