Suggestions to improve tab bar: 1. small lock symbol, 2. folder caption in info tip

Hello,

I'd like to make two suggestions for tabs options:

  1. There is an option "show small close button" which helps to save space for the caption of the tab (such as "Documents [x]"). For users that like to close with the mouse pointer, this option of course is not so helpful because it makes it difficult to hit the button. However, the LOCK sign does take up a lot of space and is non-clickable. Thus I would like to suggest also an option "show small lock symbol".

  2. There is an info tip that will show up when hovering over a tab that will show the path of the tab. When the tab's name is not visible due to limited space, and the path length is very long, the info tip is not very ergonomic:

It looks like this at the moment:
[Hel...X]
C:\folder\folder\folder\folder\folder\Hello world <- this is the tool tip

My suggestion:
[Hel...X]
Hello World
C:\folder\folder\folder\folder\folder\Hello world <- this is a tool tip that takes two lines.

The line that contains the caption, "Hello World", could be in bold font, or medium bold.

Thanks for considering!

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