Something i also mentioned in the "making tools" thread
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1270855356

2. something else, still not sure if this is more a general problem and not something a tool should/could solve, but more flexible tabs would be great. There have been some hacks, that made it possible to add your tabs to the left, or add another row
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1244442296 or like i mentioned in the post, make it possible to change the position of the tabs to organize them a bit better.

Because this resurfaced on the new boards, I got my tab management patch working in Processing 1.2.1 and wrote a post on my website that explains how to build and run it on Windows:

Hey thats useful thank you.

I am on a Linux box here but I know I can get it working. I can always copy paste away.

I have to admit to being a subversion noob. Do you know if the .patch file you offer the same as a .diff? I know that they are  the same thing but was not sure if they are the same format and applyable in the same way.

Cool as soon as Im done beating up video codecs I will give it a try. Ill let you know how it goes.

really useful. Thanks!