Re: [Nautilus-list] Tabs?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mario Vukelic <mario vukelic chello at> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 07:56, Michael Petnuch wrote:
> >TABS...  Nearly all of my favorite
> > apps (Gaim, Galeon, Xchat, even the new gnome2 terminal) use tabs.
> 
> I know this isn't the right place to say it, but doesn't that get out of
> hand? With the proliferation of tabbed apps I feel it's really time to
> move the feature where it belongs: the windowmanager. I'd think the time
> spent to implement tabs in nautilus would be much better spent in
> sawfish. Like here http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/
> I really don't have any idea of additional programming probs involved
> (like, nautilus would know that moving a file icon to a tab means cp/mv
> to the folder opened there. With the wm a more generic way to determine
> the meaning of the action would be needed)
> 

If we wanted to unify this feature the right way IMO is to do it on
the toolkit level, rather than the WM level.

Havoc