Re: Shelling Epiphany | The problems of shell-level tabs

[Filip Štědronský <regnarg seznam cz>]

> I think it's a really interesting idea, similar windows could be
> grouped and 'tabbed' and the tabs themselves could be implemented
> directly inside the window titlebar. If done correctly, it would save
> every app ever from having to reimplement tabs over and over and over.
> It sounds to me like an opportunity to increase the overall quality of
> the tabbing experience in all apps at once.

However, doing so would mean a great loss of the flexibility
tabs originally brought over windows. The fact that the app
can make them suit its needs. Browsers can show loading progress
bar in the tabs or whatever. Or they could implement them in 
a completely different way. 

I for example use the Tree Style Tab extension (which puts the
tabs in an indented tree-like layout on the left) in Firefox to
keep track of the ~200 open tabs. It's much more easy to orient
in and on wide screens there is a lot more space on the side 
than there is at the top (and most website never use the full
width anyway). I use normal tabs in other programs (Nautilus,
Terminal), as I never have so many open in those.

Using system-level tabs would make such efforts quite hard or 
at least inconsistent (because to make tabs look/behave 
different(ly), you would have to switch to a completely 
different system of handling them (wm tabs->gtk tabs)).

Not to mention "global" widgets that don't belong to any tab and
should be visible outside the tab area.

Filip Štědronský

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