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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Tab moving in Konqueror
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-12-09 9:41:09
Message-ID: 200912091041.09507.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 25 November 2009, 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?

I guess that makes sense, yes. More "behaviour compatible" with other 
browsers, and indeed one can use "duplicate tab" instead of DND (which also 
duplicates the current url into another tab, but without back/forward 
history).

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).
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