From kde-devel  Sat Feb 01 23:21:31 2003
From: Jesper Juhl <jju () dif ! dk>
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:21:31 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Three different tab implementations
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Douglas Hanley wrote:

> On Thursday 30 January 2003 04:14 pm, Rob Kaper wrote:
>> There are currently three different tab implementations in KDE:
>> Konqueror, Konsole and Kopete each have their own framework for tabs,
>> with different keybinding shortcuts and different behavior.
>>
>> Is anyone considering to merge all this into a single tabbing framework
>> to be reused in applications? If people can't handle SDI, fine, but
>> that's no reason for code duplication.
>>
>> Rob
> 
> (this thread actually started on kde-core-devel, but I'm not on that so
> this seems like a good place to go, sorry for posting over)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know I mailed here about a tab rewrite (for konqueror) a while back, and
> nothing really materialized.  But this time, I really think that my
> current
> version works quite acceptably.  Its about as good as the current
> implementation we have and isn't based on QTabWidget, so there's much room
> for improvement which can be done quite easily.  And even though this is
> for
> konqueror, it could pretty easily be made into an independent widget.  I
> figure if you want to see it in action, you can just see it in konqueror
> for
> now.  If you want, I'd even be willing to start making this its own
> widget,
> you just have to point me in the right direction i guess.  I don't have as
> much time now with school, but I'm fairly sure I can work around that.

What about concidering the approach suggested by these two wishlist bugs :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42023
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45183

Having the tabbing handled as a part of the window manager would allow
tabbing for *any* app, and the application authours wouldn't have to write
a single line of code since it's just done by the WM.


-- Jesper Juhl

 
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