Locked Tab optimal marker

[Forez]

Users can choose at

Tools > Settings > View > Folder > Folder Tabs > Tab Management > Mark locked tabs with this character

if some indicator is to appear before name of each Tab that gets Locked. For the longest time I was using the bullet point sign

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because it is:
● clearly visible
● nice looking
● I never saw it being used in an item's name

In fact it is so good that I started using it as replacement for the exclamation sign, which I [and many other people] insert in front of item's names in order for them to be visibly stored before all other items. So now I get confused within my Tabs because sometimes ordinary Tabs look like Locked ones. Plus I want to save horizontal space - and thus I need a replacement


The apostrophe sign

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'

seems to take least space - but it comes with a trade-off: because it is placed too close to names, which makes the whole Tab bar with multiple Locked Tabs look too cramped

So another alternative is the upper dot sign

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˙

which still saves space when used instead of bullet point character

Also the asterisk sign

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*

seems to be a good choice, because it also saves almost as much space - but it is more visible. Plus it has the great advantage of being an illegal character, which means it will never be seen in a name of a folder thus confuse user


But does anyone have other already tested out [during real] usage solutions to this conundrum of saving as much as possible of horizontal space while retaining readability of Tab's names?

[Forez]

But all in all this comes down to what font draws them, right?


I went to

Tools > Settings > View > Folder Tabs > Tab Colors > [ICON] A

but after clicking it, the sub-window opens with its Font field having a blank space and flashing prompt sign. So is this a bug - or an unspoken indication that FreeCommander uses for Tabs the default system font?

[Forez]

Well, anyone?