[Bug 165814] Consider using vertical tabs for any GTK dialog with more than 6 tabs

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165814

--- Comment #8 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
If you ask me, vertical tabs are not "ready for prime time", at all.

It has serious kinks, like bug 165474 and bug 165989; and beyond that - it's...
an "anti-usability" interface, at least with GTK3: It looks like a plain
vertical list of labels, not like tabs you could pull on on press or
manipulate. Not to mention you have no visual indication of where one tab ends
and another begins.

But - I buy the uniformity argument here. Which is why my suggestion is doing
the _opposite_ of the ask here, i.e. I want to see us switch back to horizontal
tabs on _all_ dialogs, at least with GTK3, for now. I'll take the hit in screen
real-estate against the sense of "blech" I get from the vertical tabs.

If and when vertical tabs are properly implemented - on the GTK side and on our
side - then I might support this.


I will stress I don't know how much of what I've written applies to other VCL
backends.

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