Middle-click on a Hydrogen workspace tab should close it (browser/VS Code convention)

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Drew Owens · 19d ago ·closed by John Lauer

Type: Feature request

Ask: middle-click (mouse wheel click) on a Hydrogen workspace tab should close it. Today the only ways to close a tab such as a Webview are the small X on the tab or the right-click menu.

Middle-click-to-close is the established convention in every tabbed UI HD users live in all day: browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox), VS Code editor tabs, and most terminals. Muscle memory sends the wheel click at the tab; in Hydrogen it currently does nothing.

Details:

Applies to workspace tabs in the HD tab strip (VS Code, Wiki, Webview, and friends). If the tab strip is shared with web Hydrogen, the fix lands in both.
Same close semantics as the X button, including any confirm-before-close behavior a tab type may have. Middle-click is a shortcut, not a force-close.
Ignore middle-click on the active-tab drag region and the + button; only a hit on a tab should close it.

2 Replies

Drew Owens · 10d ago

Still hitting this a week later on 0.1.x. Just tried to close the Wiki tab with a middle-click (wheel button) out of browser/VS Code muscle memory and nothing happened. The only way to close it is still the X or the right-click menu. Adding a +1 and a fresh repro to keep this on the radar.

John Lauer · 7d ago

Fixed (commit 32b75245, in the next build/release): middle-click (auxclick, button 1) on a workspace tab now runs the exact same close path as the tab's X button, confirm-before-close semantics included; the wheel-click's default autoscroll is suppressed on tabs. The + button and empty strip are unaffected. Thanks for the fresh repro nudge, it kept this on the list.