[Konversation-devel] [Bug 297654] New: Detachable tabs like Google Chrome

[nofewfudtefcity at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297654

            Bug ID: 297654
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: unspecified
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: konversation-devel at kde.org
           Summary: Detachable tabs like Google Chrome
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: nofewfudtefcity at gmail.com
          Hardware: Other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: konversation

Add the ability to click and drag tabs (Queries, channels, networks, etc) out
of Konversation's main window, thus spawning a new window to contain them. The
behavior should be basically identical to how Google Chrome works.

This one feature would satisfy many other potential requests. I've mainly seen
them in Konversation's IRC channel so I can't make any references to bug
reports, though.

Some of the features this would satisfy are as follows:
"Dual chat pane" (Chat pane gets split in half and shows streams from two
channels at once)
"Collapsible networks" (Clicking Freenode's tab/list entry causes all channels
and query tabs associated with it to disappear until clicked again)
"Channel merging" (Treat two channels on two networks that share the same name
as one channel -- This would work better using detachable tabs since you could
drag both channels to the same window and still see them as separate channels,
yet a highlight would make the same taskbar entry flash.)
"Multi-row tabs/Make the channel pane fit more stuff" (Both these requests deal
with trying to fit more channels, networks and queries into the same space
without having to use a scroll bar. If more windows could be made, this problem
wouldn't occur as much.)

In addition to all this, it could completely change the look of Konversation if
used correctly. Each channel and query could appear in their own tab by
default, giving it the feeling of being an IM client rather than an IRC client.
This should be configurable if implemented so that users may decide to
automatically "dock" every new tab to the network that owns it (IRC-like) or
creates a new window when a new tab is opened (IM-like).

This should ultimately be a functional change, not an aesthetic one, just to be
clear. Any aesthetics that do come up are done by how the end user arranges the
tabs, not by any changes in Konversation's GUI.

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