Three different tab implementations

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Friday 31 January 2003 05:29, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> On Friday 31 January 2003 12:00 am, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Friday 31 January 2003 01:14, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > > There are currently three different tab implementations in KDE:
> > > Konqueror, Konsole and Kopete each have their own framework for tabs,
> > > with different keybinding shortcuts and different behavior.
> >
> > Dont forget kate too, although they try to make it look more like emacs'
> > multiple buffer thing, but it's really all the same.
>
> No, it's not, and that's exactly why the whole "Make tabs part of the
> window manager" thing completely misses the point, IMHO (yes, I am partly
> replying to other people). The whole advantage of those types of interfaces
> is that they're adapted specifically for the use patterns of each
> application, which is why many users like them over the WM/Panel
> mechanisms. Try fitting more than maybe 10 files in a tabbar (depending on
> screen size) and it soon gets useless. Now compare that with Kate's
> filelist, which scales to much larger filesets, and lacks the awkward
> scrolling problem of tabs. See the difference?
>
No, Kate is much worse since the filelist is unsorted and thus impossible find 
anything in if you open more than 5 windows + there's is no shortcut 
(alt-tab) for changing back to the file you edited last. The file-dialog is 
more user-friendly than the file-list in kate.

> Yes, I agree that homogenizing appearance, shorcuts, and reducing code dup
> is a great goal - but these interfaces will never be 100% identical,
> because frankly, they're all used for different things.
>
It would still be very nice to have a consistant tabbing that is used unless 
there are good reasons for anything else. (personally I prefer something more 
subtle like tabbing in MSOffice rather than the big Opera-like tabbing used 
in konqueror)

> On the other hand, maybe we should just move Konqueror to kdelibs? It does
> tabbing, view splitting, sidebars, and embedded konsole. What else would an
> app need? ;-)
>
One day konqueror will _be_ KDE and KDE will be everything ;-)

`Allan