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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 42023] PWM-Like tabbing support for windows
From:       Jorge Mata <matamax123 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-04 18:12:11
Message-ID: 20090504181211.6B99916A4F () immanuel ! kde ! org
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--- Comment #83 from Jorge Mata <matamax123 gmail com>  2009-05-04 20:12:02 ---
(In reply to comment #76)
> 
> The SOC page does not clearly identify how the UI will work, it just gives a
> few vague possibilities of how it could work (I really hope that they will not
> all be included with an option).  Should the window tabs be a split taskbar, a
> tab on top or a tab just inside?  Personally I think tab inside the frame is
> best.  Chrome/Safari went with a split taskbar which I think is a horrible UI,
> dragging a window with lots of tabs will be next to impossible.  Tabs on top
> would mean that closing the entire group would need an extra frame or some
> other method to close them all.
> 

I have more info about my proposal at http://www.jmata.co.cc/index.php?kdeapp=1
the way I was thinking is that the decoration will display the tabbed windows,
so it will depend on the the decoration if it is inside or outside the frame.

> The part of the SOC proposal which says "This feature would eliminate the need
> to implement this feature for single applications which will save a lot of work
> others that want to add tabs to their applications" seems to go against what
> most of the users here think.  They seem to assume that window tabs and
> application tabs will live alongside each other and that app developers will
> still have to worry about tabbing.
> 

the applications can still have their internal windows, it will depend on the
applications want kind of tabs they want or both.

> There are many gotchas that you will experience which can make or break this
> feature.  For example, off the top of my head, if you have 3-4 windows tabbed
> together with unsaved documents and you close the whole group, every
> application will pop up it's confirmation dialog at the same time.  The user
> will be left chasing modal popups.  The UI for creating and managing window
> groups will be crucial to it's usability.

I still need to think more on what kind of problems this feature will bring.

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