[rekonq] Re: GSOC Idea for Tab Grouping in Rekonq

[Tirtha Chatterjee]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Andrea Diamantini <adjam7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/20/2011 09:44 PM, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote:
>>
>> Tabbed browsing, when it was introduced, offered huge breakthroughs in
>> browsing comfort. But there has been little changes in the way tabs
>> have been dealt with ever since. This has given rise to two important
>> use cases-
>>
>> 1. Many people use tabs as temporary bookmarks to mark whatever they
>> want to surf or check out later. They just open it up in a new tab.
>> For example, I find a good link or tutorial, and I open up a new tab,
>> so that I can look at it when I have the time. This has given rise to
>> many many unorganised tabs waiting to be viewed. They clutter up the
>> tab strip and make tabbed browsing a harder task.
>>
>> 2. Many users have this specific style of browsing - I look for xyz in
>> Google, then open up 4-5 relevant entries in new tabs. I open up links
>> in these tabs further in new tabs. This increases the number of tabs.
>> Many users today have an average tab count of over 20.
>>
>> Rekonq currently has "<  >" buttons at the end of the tab strip to
>> browse through tabs. But there is no way of organising or grouping
>> those tabs under groups, so that they can be expanded and collapsed at
>> will. This addition will add a logical and more intuitive way of
>> browsing through tabs. Firefox 4 has introduced the Panorama view to
>> group tabs. Opera has also made it possible to group tabs in clusters
>> which can be collapsed, allowing for smooth browsing. I wish to
>> implement this feature in Rekonq as a GSOC project this summer. I
>> would like to have somebody mentor me on this project.
>>
>> Any kind of reviews / suggestions are welcome.
>>
>
> Hi Tirtha,
> I really like your idea but I have to say this is probably something that
> can fit GSoC 2012 :D
> Anyway, let's talk a bit about. I'll write down here some sparse ideas I had
> thinking a bit about your
> proposal.
>
> - I'd like to add this feature as something available as a rekonq page
> (about:tabs or something like that)
>
> - people can group tabs and save groups as "sessions" (let's call them this
> way). Any session consist of a window with the tabs listed there.
>
> - rekonq can start up with one of these "sessions".
Yes I agree with this idea. I had misunderstood it earlier. Groups can
be called as sessions, and be independently loaded and stored.
>
> - about implementation, we basically need to rewrite the MainView class,
> finally removing the hated KTabWidget and providing a... QGraphicsWidget (?)
> there. This will be super dangerous :)
>
> I like this, but I'm a bit worried from. And I'm really not sure I can
> properly mentor this project on all its parts.
> Can you please detail a bit more your ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
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Tirtha Chatterjee
National Institue of Technology, Durgapur