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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Tab moving in Konqueror
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-12-06 13:58:09
Message-ID: 200912061523.25650.jospoortvliet () gmail ! com
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On Wednesday 25 November 2009 14:18:40 Marcus Harrison wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 Nov 2009 10:26:32 Frank Reininghaus wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > it seems that tab moving in Konqueror (and any other app that uses the
> > traditional middle-click tab moving) is broken at the moment:
> >
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214646
> >
> > Regardless of this bug (which should of course be fixed before 4.4.0)
> > I'm wondering if it makes sense to use Qt's tab moving with the left
> > mouse button in Konqueror instead.
> >
> > The advantage would be that it's probably more intuitive (it's been
> > requested a couple of times on bugs.kde.org, and other browsers like
> > Firefox and Arora also use the left button for moving tabs) and that
> > the moving is animated nicely by QTabBar. Moving tabs with the middle
> > mouse button would still work.
> >
> > The disadvantage would be that drag&drop of the tab url would not work
> > any more, but I would guess that this feature is used a lot less than
> > tab moving?
> >
> > Any thoughts on this? I'm sorry about starting this discussion just
> > before the beta tagging, but I've been a bit busy with other things
> > recently.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Frank
> 
> Though it's probably unsafe to make that assumption without any feedback, I
> also happen to know that the current tab-URL-dragging effect is also
> implemented in the address-bar icon: they both behave, as far as I can
>  tell, exactly the same. Additionally, with Qt's tab-bar moving, it is
>  possible to detach and re-attach tabs to windows in the context menu and,
>  in the future I presume, by simply tearing the tab away. Using Qt's
>  tab-bar moving function in Konqueror would allow it to inherit these
>  benefits directly, without needing to re-implement them.
> 
> Therefore, I consider this a net-gain, not a net-loss action. I would move
> over to Qt's tab-bar implementation and make contributions directly
> upstream when most appropriate.

I don't see many responses from developers here, it might be nice if either of 
you can come up with a patch. If the konqi devs don't respond - well, maybe it 
should be considered unmantained and you guys can take over ;-)

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