Re: [Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 7 July 2010 07:32, Philipp Wendler wrote:
>>
>> How would you handle the advanced application-specific features related
>> to tabs? In Firefox for example, there are quite a few actions when you
>> right-click on the tab bar:
>> - reload tab
>> - make tab into a bookmark
>> - undo tab closing
>
> Creating a standard protocol for tabs that allows collaboration between
> application and the WM.
>

Why exactly do we want the WM to be handling tabs here? Trying to do
tabbed applications within the window manager for the sake of having
tabs is a huge waste of memory, especially when the application itself
can already do tabs.

It also does not make sense from a design perspective. the whole point
of tabbed windows (as it is implemented in both Compiz and KWin) is to
allow multiple /applications/ to be shoved into one window,
applications which the user delegates themselves as related. Confusing
documents and windows here doesn't help at all.

Kind Regards,

Sam

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Sam Spilsbury