Consider a vertical tabs notebook layout for Pavucontrol
Submitted by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Assigned to pul..@..op.org
Description
Something always felt odd to me with pavucontrol's layout, and I think I finally figured out what it is: the horizontal tabs at the top. The problem is that in many verbose languages (such as French) they become very lengthy, and then the notebook overflows into scroll mode, which is not handled very well by GTK.
A better layout I would propose would be to simply use vertical tabs, and to remove the 12px padding (border) around the vbox containing the notebook widget.
This would make pavucontrol look great on the official GTK theme, Adwaita. Screenshots attached.
You might be surprised to find out that, paradoxally, with vertical tabs the window actually becomes less wide, and the contents inside each page feel more balanced (less stretched horizontally, especially the sliders and vumeters). This looks especially great on widescreen monitors.