[rekonq] [RFC] Draggable Tabs

Andrea Diamantini adjam7 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 08:05:36 UTC 2012


On 02/15/2012 05:54 PM, David Narvaez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As we come close to release Rekonq 0.9, I'm also starting to draft
> ideas of things we can implement for Rekonq 0.10 and one of them -
> actually the one I'm needing the most - is draggable tabs, as in
> taking a tab from one Rekonq window and dropping it in another one.
>
>  From my point of view, this is a natural complement of the Detach Tab
> feature, since in my regular use case I start browsing for a topic,
> then I have eg. 5 tabs of that topic and I intend to keep reading on a
> new window to keep my original window topic-centered so I detach one
> of the tabs. Then I'd like to drag the other 4 tabs to the new
> instance but, instead, I have to copy&  paste the URLs, losing tab
> history and precious time.
>
> I've already looked at the places where modifications would need to
> go, and this is something I'd be happy to implement but I was
> wondering if this is an idea anybody else shares or is already working
> on. Also, what's the best way to work on this? I think a patch-based
> approach would be tedious as this feature would probably come in a set
> of patches rather than in one single patch and reviewing them all in
> the Reviewboard could take some time. Instead, I've thought of
> starting a new draggable-tabs branch and eventually merging those
> changes into master after they have been reviewed by relevant people.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> David E. Narvaez
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Working with branches is THE way to work with git (and with rekonq, 
first KDE project git based?). Don't worry about ReviewBoard and open a 
personal clone of rekonq in KDE git infrastructure, instead.

About Anton's comment (that I coudn't reply because didn't include 
David's post), I don't think this overlaps with TIrtha's work in any 
way. It's another way to "organize" tabs, I know. But users do usually 
very strange different things. Common user interfaces are very 
redundant, think about how many ways you know to open a new tab...

As a conclusive comment about requested feature, I have to say I really 
like it, BUT it will need complete review/rewrite for the version AFTER 
0.10, where plans have not yet been revealed. I have to write something 
somewhere about...

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