Re: tabbed documents possible?

Good thinking. Why reinvent in every app something that is now
considered a necessity?

Just make sure that CTL-TAB within the app still rotates through the
list of open instances of your app.

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:02 -0700, r coyne wrote:
> 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 04:49:16 2006