Re: on tabs

[Rodrigo Amestica <ramestica nrao edu>]

GSR - FR wrote:
> So long? Wow... I thought there was some extras some weeks ago.

this is what I found as a proper wiki:

http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Proposed_Goals#Tabbed_Windowing_Support

the rest are a couple a thread discussions during August 2008, they contain a 
good deal but sparse set of ideas and specific details.

> > I want to change the tab's text, in a per window basis, with a text that 
>
> Why do you want to change the text via prompts? For my collection of
> "what it is, what it needs". You never know, maybe I just jump into
> coding it. ;]

For a while I gave a try to kconsole. It is neat to have many shells open at 
once within one frame. After a few minutes of switching around shells you decide 
to dedicate one for X, another for Y and even another one for Z, and so on. At 
that moment you then set on-the-fly their tabs names to X, Y and Z, for their 
easy access in the short future.

On this regard, it is important from my point of view that window's names and 
tab's texts are kept independent. I like Toyberg-Alt-FB because you see both at 
the same time (at least for the top most window in the tab group).

> > I have tuned tabgroup.jl to my taste (use Toyberg-Alt-FB for windows 
> > tabbed together and Toyberg for single windows). I will really like to 
> > get an update of current ideas about tabs in sawfish. No tabs is no fun!
>
> The current ideas seem to be that it is slightly complex, current
> method is a bit hackish and last coder is highly busy. I keep on
> thinking about it, but did not get much feedback from last posts.

I managed now to set the tab's text properly. Using (prompt) I get the text 
string, put it into a window's attribute and in the theme I hardcoded a lambda 
that gets that attribute instead of the default window-name (Toyberg-Alt-FB's 
default, at least).

Hardcoding in theme the name of this custom window's attribute does not look 
right, but it works. Deja-vu, I feel doing something that somebody else has 
figured out better than me (lisp is rough on me), that's the reason for my 
original posting.

thanks,
 Rodrigo

> GSR
>