Re: Two Problems, One Solution.

[Rovanion Luckey <rovanion luckey gmail com>]

Overall, I think having tabbed browsing/documents managed by the window manager, Gnome Shell and Gnome itself would be modernized, and ease and experience of switching of applications/windows would surpass all current Operating Systems and Desktop Environments.

My two cents: This could be as important as standardizing notifications and messages from applications. 

Look over the fence at the Windows camp where there is no standardized way, or rather there is but it's very bad and hardly ever used, for managing messages to the user. In a Windows environment about every application has their own popupmanager and they all work differently in some way or another. The mess that this creates is huge. It is both bad for the developers of applications who have to rewrite a lot of code and the users who are confused by all these differently colored, animated, sounding and behaving windows that pops up in different places.

Sort of the same situation exists on all platforms when it comes to tabs. Tabs may not be such a "torn off" part of the application as user messages are and may therefor be harder to push into a unified model. But instead of removing the window borders as the design document hints leaving more work to the application developers the Shell could provide more functionality and actually make these borders usable.

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