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[Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Applications without tabs support would delegate all tabbing functions to
the window manager. On the opposite side, apps with advanced tab management
could handle everything and just notify the names of existing tabs to the WM
so that it can use them in the task bar, Alt+tab switcher, Exposé-like
effects...