Support moving editor windows to a new monitor.

[Tomaz Canabrava]

I can review it, I do lack the time to work on it tought.

On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 12:05 John Sennesael <john at adminking.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I recently posted a feature request for allowing source editors to be
> opened in a new window (which can have it's own splits and tabs) on
> bugs.kde.org, and it was suggested I contact the mailing list
> instead. - ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472334 ) - So I'll
> repeat it below:
>
> This is a feature request to make editor windows detachable such that
> they can moved onto a different monitor head. This new editor window
> can have it's own tabs as well. So it would be like having a second
> main window, but without the toolbar, menu, etc,...
>
> This could be implemented by dragging tabs outside of the main
> window, and/or having a context menu on right-clicking the tab with a
> 'move to new window' option, along with a corresponding entry in the
> Window menu.
>
> I took a look at the code to see how much work this would be, and
> unfortunately, due to the way things are set up, with the Sublime
> MainWindow owning a lot of the state and event handling around tabs,
> it would not be very trivial.
>
> In order to implement this, we'd need to abstract all of the
> tab-specific code into a type of TabContainer Widget or Window base
> class and add a way of tracking the currently active/focused tab
> container/window so we know which one to address when a new tab is
> requested for instance. Moreover, all the tab related event/signal
> handling functions would also have to be moved, as the sublime
> MainWindow currently has stuff like TabDoucleClicked() etc,..
>
> As I had mentioned in the original issue on the bug tracker, I don't
> mind taking a stab at the implementation of this myself, but Igor was
> concerned about being the only reviewer on this feature. As such,
> would others be interested in reviewing or help developing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -jns
>
>
>
>
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