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Re: Tab bar
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Tab bar |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:48:32 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> We already have a suitable infrastructure of graphical primitives to
>> implement a tab bar on top of it. It is required to have graphical
>> areas attached to window edges that can contain a row of bitmaps
>> bound to some commands. This functionality is already supported by the
>> header line and window fringes. It seems what we need is to improve
>> them to attach arbitrary number of header lines and fringes to a window,
>> and to render text (tab names) using specified fonts on these
>> graphical elements.
>
> however, toolkits like gtk+ do have tab widgets, like they have tool
> bars and scroll bars - shouldn't they be usable, akin to "toolkit scroll
> bars" and "toolkit tool bars" and "toolkit menu bars" in emacs?
Then should we have two versions of tab widgets: Gtk and non-Gtk?
>> I think tab bars are popular because they contain only elements of the
>> current program without stuff from other programs in their lists.
>
> Trying to understand that, at least re tabbed wm vs.
> intraprogram-implemented tabbing - are you suggesting the
> window-attached tab bars in a tabbed wm *would* have stuff from other
> programs in their lists? Now, granted they _could_, but typically,other
> applications' windows would have to be manually dragged into the tabbed
> window, whereas new windows from existing applications could e.g.
> default to the tabbed window their last window went into.
The main disadvantage of tabbed WMs is that they can't provide
program-specific functionality like e.g. a command to undo tab closing,
etc.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: Tab bar, (continued)
- Re: Tab bar (was: Neat features in Eclipse editor), Richard Stallman, 2008/04/07
- Re: Tab bar, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/07
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/08
- Re: Tab bar,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: Tab bar, David Kastrup, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/09
- Re: Tab bar, Jan Djärv, 2008/04/10
- Re: Tab bar, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/10
- Re: Tab bar, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/10
- Re: Tab bar, Jan Djärv, 2008/04/10
- Re: Tab bar, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/10
- Re: Tab bar, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/10
- Re: Tab bar, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/11
- Re: Tab bar, Paul R, 2008/04/09