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Bug 355438 - grouping applications with tabs in the title bar
grouping applications with tabs in the title bar
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-11 14:24 UTC by Nathan Van Eps
Modified: 2006-09-18 18:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Nathan Van Eps 2006-09-11 14:24:41 UTC 
Many applications benefit from having 'tabs', like gnome-terminal, firefox, word processors, etc.. It occured to me that it would be good to offer this sort of functionality to all applications. A way to do this would be to allow 'tabs' to be managed by the window manager. After all, different tabs are in essence, different windows. The selection of different tabs could be put in the title bar, as actual tabs or a menu, whatever is best. I believe all users could learn this fairly easily, as long as the 'tab name' is visible where the selection occurs. Let me know what you think!
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2006-09-18 18:15:13 UTC 
While such a radical redesign of the method of managing windows may be fun, it also has a lot of research issues (should windows of different sizes of the same app be allowed to be "tabbed" together?  should dialogs be a tab?  should windows of different apps be allowed to be "tabbed" together?) with lots of side-effects and little details that would need to be worked out.  I think this would be better pursued as a separate window manager project, and one which we simply don't have the necessary resources to pursue.  So, unfortunately I'll have to mark this as wont-fix.  However, note that this sounds a lot like ION (http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/); you may be interested in taking a look.