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Why not have a way for the window to convey to the window manager that it (the window) is primarily just a holder of tabs (as most browsers, and increasingly mo
by deathanatos 12y ago
Why not have a way for the window to convey to the window manager that it (the window) is primarily just a holder of tabs (as most browsers, and increasingly more applications, seem to be), and let the WM decide based on the user's preference what the correct behavior and display is?
- oneeyedpigeon 12y agoIs there still not a single window manager that understands tabs as a first class object? Why does Chrome (the browser) give me all sorts of fancy tab-related features, but no other program does? Even Windows nearly got this right back in the 3.1 days of MDI, and the entire world has regressed since then.
- chr1 12y agoBecause window manager is hard to extend and hard to customize . I can trivially change this and lots of other things in Firefox, but with windows WM i would have to wait 3 years to get any bug fixed or a new feature added. Also calling chrome or Firefox window "just a holder of tabs" isn't fair, they are very special holders of very special tabs, and lots of work goes into them to make them work properly. Also there are other "holder of tabs" windows, e.g Sublime Text, which are mostly similar but have important differences. Trying to move all that complexity into WM simply won't work.