Re: Tabbed windows in Mutter/Metacity

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 7 Jul 2009, at 14:18, Sam H wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I would like to implement support for tabbed windows in Mutter, and
> was hoping for some helpful pointers. I envision tabbed windows
> working essentially the same way that tabs work in Google Chrome.
> However, being part of the window-manager, every application would
> make use of tabs without having to re-invent them specifically for
> that application. It has always struck me that tabs were something
> that belonged into the window manager, not in browsers, terminals,
> editors, etc.
>
> There was a discussion a while back on the gnome developers list that
> expected gnome's window manager to have tabbed windows in the future.
> I believe that with the advent of compositing in Mutter/Metacity, now
> is a good time to finally make this happen.

I'd love to see us at least investigate this possibility, even if we  
just get to the mockup stage and decide it's going to be too clunky to  
continue.

I have no idea right now how it would look, or how it would integrate  
with gnome-shell, but I'd be happy to help out on the usability side  
of things however I can.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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