Vertical Tabs

[dhulihan]

For those of us with way too many shell sessions open at one time...

Equivalent on iTerm2:

Configuration example (locations being Top, Bottom, Left):

[mitchellh]

Converted to a discussion so this can be discussed a bit further.

I'm not a big fan of it. We support bottom tabs on Linux because it is provided by the native GUI toolkit. If Apple supported this natively I'd also be supportive, but this requires a totally different UI element to pull it off (either a list view of some sort or a custom tab view). Generally speaking, Ghostty tries to do as little of that as possible.

I also just want to use this discussion to gauge generally interest.

[dhulihan]

Thanks for opening this up to discussion! I hadn't seen any requests for vertical tabs here in gh or discord, so it's good to have a reference point for this decision for others :).

Vertical tabs are a nice-to-have for me for switching between several open projects at a time (sometimes dozens on bad days), but there are workarounds for this (tmux session switching, etc.). Not a deal breaker by any means! Vertical tabs have been getting a little more popular in browsers (zen, brave), so it is also nice to have familiar layouts across tooling.

On the other hand, maybe I'm just hoarding too many tabs 😉.

[narqo]

I'm not sure if it is worth opening a separate general discussion about tab location option on macOS, so will put it here.

I run iTerm2 in the full screen mode with tabs bar at the bottom. I find the appeal of it because this visually moves the terminal's output higher a bit on the screen. I feel this better utilises the laptop's screen space.