Tab locations

+1, although a furtherance of this request, as currently the left/right sides are used for the display area of various plugins…

If Tabs on the Left/Right was to be considered, perhaps the display of the plugins themselves could be more modular and resizable.

E.G. The Tabs on the Left/Right would be inside a dockable container that could be resized in all directions. The container could have a scroll bar or Up/Down buttons to bring other tabs into view that wont fit into the current height. Likewise the plugins would be inside a dockable container that could be resized.

Thus you might have something like:

_____________________________

	|[↑][↓]      |01| Edit Area

	|[File 1    ]|02| 

	|[File 2    ]|03|

	|[File 3    ]|04|

	|____________|05|

	|Search      |06|

	|Plugin      |07|

	|            |08|

	|            |09|

	|____________|10|

	|Explorer    |11|

	|Plugin      |12|

	|            |13|

	|____________|14|____________

	|____________________________

	

The only problems I see with the “Open Documents”:
1) The ContextMenu of “Open Documents” is missing items that are on a ‘real’ Tab’s contextMenu.
2) †Disables, right-click + Scroll from cycling tabs (when it is focused.
3) It would take up the left(or right) side plugin location.

Although I did forget about that particular plugin, It’s similiar to Opera’s Window Panel, as opposed to tabs on the left/right — it feels less “solid”.