Re: tabbed documents possible?

Rather than have each app write its own tabbing system
(with much duplication of effort, including of
windowing functionality, and producing inconsistent
though no doubt customized, optimized UIs), I would
favor a general solution at the OS level. How about
nested tasks on the bar, i.e., a task tree instead of
just a bar? Several windows can be grouped together
under one taskbar item, and selecting it brings up the
next level of choice. There could be a small but
always accessible Up button on the bar, and a Main
Tasks button, and perhaps some way to display more
than one level of the tree, more than one bar, at
once, if you can spare the room. Or a bigger, thicker
bar, with room for more sub-items, if you need that.
With context-sensitive/right-click menus on the
taskbar items, such things should be manageable. Or a
single zone on the task bar could simply be subdivided
right there into tiny little sub-zones, with
user-changeable titles so you can use, e.g., mnemonic
single letters.

That leaves the problem of what to do meanwhile, till
the OS people implement something like this. But the
fact that a problem is really best solved by someone
else is at least a decent reason to not spend lots of
effort on a hopefully temporary issue.

--- Nemo Fairbrother <nemo@nemof.org> wrote:

>
> Hi there. I recently came over to abiword from OOo
> as it's simply much
> more useful to me. I was wondering though is it
> possible through options
> or plugins to have tabbed documents (ala firefox
> tabs) so I don't have
> hundreds of taskbar windows? I work on lots of
> documents at once, and so
> would appreciate the ability to keep them all in one
> window and Ctrl+tab
> between them, rather than have them clutter my
> windows taskbar.
>
> Cheers for your help!
>
> nemo
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Received on Tue Apr 18 02:02:01 2006