behdad, I guess, dobey’s comments explains the feature. IIRC OpenOffice.org, Firefox too has the same concept like evolution. IMO It may not be fair to compare this with tabs in gedit. I agree with the shortcuts stuff, which should to be addressed in some way. We are working on configurable shortcuts which should help address such issues. It was supposed to be in 2.8, but didnt make it. It should be part of next release, as I have described in the FUTURE section in my earlier blog