Re: Shelling Epiphany

[Juergen Mangler <juergen mangler univie ac at>]

This idea is about 5000 years old. I guess you have to implement it 
yourself, if you want to ever see it.

On 03/18/2011 05:02 PM, Robert Park wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Allan Day<allanpday gmail com>  wrote:
> > > = Let the user switch to a specific epiphany's opened site using g-s
> > > facilities =
> > > I am using the term site here, instead of tab, because it is not really
> > > clear we should to keep the tabs management in ephy IMHO.
> > > Tabs and notebooks are just a way to have application-local window
> > > management, mostly duplicating wms/shells facilities, compensating for
> > > their missing features (windows grouping for instance).
> > > Re-giving that responsibility to the shell seems like a natural thing to
> > > do, reducing the number of different ways to switch to a specific
> > > site/app/context.
> > > It seems the design team shares this opinion, as seen in
> > > http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/raw/master/mockups/epiphany/epiphany2.png .
> >
> > That particular design was my effort. I wouldn't say it was the view of
> > the 'team' ;) (though one or two people did seem to like it). The way I
> > left things, I was hoping for a prototype to do some user testing with.
> > (The design needs a lot more work, too.) That said, I'm of the opinion
> > that tabs don't make a huge amount of sense in the context of the shell.
>
> 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.
>
> I'm thinking much larger than just Epiphany here. gnome-terminal and
> gedit could also benefit from this kind of treatment.