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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Use MDI or SDI with wisdom
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2002-11-01 9:33:36
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On Thursday 31 October 2002 18:12, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> Neil Stevens wrote:
> > If there are cases wehre KWin isn't sufficient for you, *ask the KWin
> > guys to improve it*. Come up with useful suggestions to make KWin better.
> > Don't take the hackish way out, and ask 10 different app maintainers to
> > add the same WM code over and over.
>
> It seems that one feature the KWin guys could add is the ability to
> group multiple windows together using some kind of tab UI. Basically,
> what Mozilla or Konqueror tabbed browsing does. Providing this
> functionality in KWin would make it available to _every_ application in
> a consistent manner.
>
> Do you know if the KWin guys are planning to implement this sometime in
> the future?

 Not that I'm aware of, though it could maybe slip in during the planned ... 
well, let's call it cleaning up for KDE3.2.

 But since you ask, could you first tell me how this would be useful. If I put 
external taskbar at the top, how is this different from tabs (yeah, I know it 
looks a bit different, but what's the _real_ difference)?

-- 
Lubos Lunak
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