Show history navigation buttons next to the sidebar collapse buttons

Hello,
right now Obsidian only has ‘back’ and ‘forward’ buttons in the tab title bar if you toggle it. I think this is an illogical grouping, and that they should be moved to appear next to the ‘collapse’ buttons for the sidebars.

  • The tab title’s purpose is to display the current file’s path, that is information about the active file itself. The back and forward buttons are used to navigate the current tab’s session history, that is information about the active tab.
  • The tab title bar is also a situational feature: if you don’t need to display long file names, or don’t organize your notes using filesystem folders, it only makes sense to disable it. The tab’s session history relates to Obsidian’s core design: back and forward buttons are an essential UI element in web browsers, they are incredibly useful for navigating linked documents, and users expect to have them.

Proposed solution:

Put ‘back’ next to the left ‘collapse’ button, put ‘forward’ next to the right ‘collapse’ button, and make them affect the active tab.

I think the grouping makes sense because the arrows are in the area for the tab they relate to. But it would be good to move them when the tab title bar is hidden. And if that’s happening, it might make sense to just keep them in that other location whether the tab title bar is hidden or not.

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