Re: Starting the Emacs 27 release cycle

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 06:55:28 +0100, Stefan Kangas <address@hidden> said:

    Stefan> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
    >> I'm still not sure if a fancier look is worth the trouble,
    >> especially since in some sense it's a change for the worse:
    >> it takes too much screen space, so less tabs can fit into the tab bar.
    >> 
    >> Please see the difference: the first image is the current tab shapes,
    >> on the second image you can see that less tabs can be displayed
    >> on the tab bar:

    Stefan> FWIW, and this is of course highly subjective, but I think the 
rounded
    Stefan> style looks much better, more professional and more modern.  The
    Stefan> trade-off with regards to screen real estate will be well worth it 
for
    Stefan> the default case, I think.  If we decide to go that way, we could
    Stefan> always keep the other look around as an option for those working on
    Stefan> smaller screens.

Is it possible to emulate the chrome/chromium method, where the curve
of the active tab covers the inactive tabs to the right/left? That
solves the spacing issue.