On Sat, 2 May 2015 11:16:24 +0100 Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1 May 2015 at 15:58, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I tend to have exclusively one konsole and one firefox window > > opened at a time (on their respective desktops), and extensively > > use multiple tabs. This avoids over-cluttering the desktops (in my > > case, remaining six desktops can then be used for various other > > apps, one per desktop), and I always know where to look for various > > stuff... ;-) Btw, given the multiple tabs functionality, I always > > fail to see the reason for having multiple window instances of the > > same app (like firefox or konsole). > > Well, since you said you were interested, any circumstance where you > need to see information from two pages/tabs at once. Or if researching > something you may have a window open with multiple tabs open for that, > with another window that you're working in. I'll typically start a > task and if it gets big send it to its own desktop, which may be a few > konsole windows and any other programs that are relevant (browser, > spreadsheet etc.). In the case of browsers, some sites or applications > will use their own sub-windows, e.g. I listen to BBC iplayer radio, > this really wants its own window sized to their interface, and it's > easier to let it do that rather than open in a tab (so it can be > minimised without cluttering up tabs I actually want to look at). I see. I usually consider firefox as a mostly-read-only app, so I never came across a usecase where I would want two web pages displayed simultaneously on the same screen. But I do understand this point in the case of konsole --- typing in one window while reading a man page in another is probably a sensible scenario. Btw, I also listen to streaming radio (not BBC though), but for me it is more convenient to open it in a tab. I guess it depends on how the web page of the player is made... ;-) Thanks to everyone for the info! Best, :-) Marko _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
