Proposal 1) Rename existing toolbar tabs.
HI, I've been studying the toolbar tabs & given that currently a user can create their own tab very easily, the Tabs menu/ui elements soon becomes stacked up & untidy. To lessen the visual & usability impact of this, I would propose the following:
1a: Rename/Abbreviate the Grease Pencil tab to Grease Pen. Only in the Tab's ui. (One solution to grease pencil tab would be to add it as a panel in Tab "Tools")
Benefits: Saved space
Negatives: Inconsistent Naming Conventions.
My Opinion: Grease Pencil has too much real estate in Blender's Tabs UI. The "Grease Pencil" Tab & Panel could be moved to the "Tools" Tab as a sub panel & the Grease Pencil panel be closed by default. (to save space.) 1 click and the panel opens if you need to use Grease Pencil.
1/b: Rename the Animation tab to Animate. Only in the Tabs ui.
Benefits: Saved space
Negatives: Inconsistent Naming Conventions.
My Opinion: A small change that would save a little space when a little space in important.
Proposal 2) Add Tab for "User."
With the saved character space in the Tabs by Proposal 1a &1b, create a new default tab: "User"
Benefits: As in the introduction here: given that currently a user can create their own tab very easily, the Tabs menu/ui elements soon becomes stacked up & untidy. To lessen the visual & usability impact of this, a tab for Users to put their work in, without stacking custom names could be beneficial to consistency & space saving.
Negatives: Another Tab.
My Opinion: A default tab for the user to place their addon panel could help encourage addon writers to adopt Tabs. Some users don't like to nestle their addons with all the rest & it can be convenient to have a space to share or test before adding to the Default Tabs.
I hope I have been clear enough, from here I would ask the UI team if they could review my suggestions.
I have not made a patch as my proposal involves very little in the way of code changes & is dependent on several elements of the proposal as a whole.
Thanks
Brendon.