On 24 Dec 2008, at 15:11, chriswyattuk wrote:
Hi, I was thinking wouldn't it be nice to create tabs from windows.
I had a
bunch of chat windows and I was thinking it would be great to say,
just be
able to just to drag one onto the titlebar of another and group the
windows
together with tabs. The functionality could be built in to GNOME.
Another
way you could do this is by selecting windows on the task bar and
right-clicking and selecting an option. This would be great if you
had too
many windows open and you wanted just to group some together, and
they could
easily be dragged back out again if need be.
What you're describing is a tabbed window manager, something many of
the GNOME usability folks have suggested in the past, but it hasn't
got off the ground so far-- not least because window managers are hard
to write, I guess. (But also because we've never really sat down to
try to design one in any detail.)
It's potentially an elegant model, though. It gives more
organisational power to the user, obviates the need for app developers
to decide whether their app ought to be tabbed or not, and takes away
the temptation to implement their tabs slightly differently from every
other tabbed app. I'd love to see us try it out some day.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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