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List:       nedit-discuss
Subject:    Re: Kinda OT: Tabs (was: window size)
From:       Michael Collette <metrol () metrol ! net>
Date:       2003-05-23 4:38:15
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On Thursday 22 May 2003 03:39 pm, Michael Smith wrote:
> What is Fluxbox?

Fluxbox is a Unix window manager based around a slightly older project called 
Blackbox.

Fluxbox
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/

Blackbox
http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/

The reason why folks are talking about Fluxbox here is that it provides for 
Window level tab switching.  A while back I was heavily pushing the idea over 
on the KDE Usability list, but not much interest was generated.  During this 
discussion I did up some screen shots of this behavior in action, working 
alongside KDE kinda stuff.

http://www.metrol.net/thinkpad/Flux2.png

Lots of tabby goodness there.  Mozilla with tabs, tabbed alongside Konqueror, 
Nedit, Gimp, and a bunch of other stuff.  Not really practical to use it as 
shown, as I was attempting to illustrate the kind of things that could be 
done.  I'm sure you could imagine more practical uses as to how you would put 
this to use.

Fluxbox has other good stuff about it as well, but this window level tabbing 
really sets it apart from the pack.  I should note that it is up to the user 
as to whether you want tabs to show up or not, and it can be configured to be 
application specific.  It's an outstanding way to get NEdit tabbing without 
having application support built in.  Unfortunately, I have a variety of 
reasons why I stick with using the standard KDE window manager at the moment.

BTW, Fluxbox runs in Cygwin as well.  All good stuff! :)

Later on,
-- 
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark 
to read."
 - Groucho Marx

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