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From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch.
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:07:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC0CC8E.9080608@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv39z32l81.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier skrev:
>>>> Are there any concrete examples of other uses?
>>> I can imagine switching the buffer of one of the windows (in an ECB-style
>>> frame, for example).
>> Isn't that a window configuration?  I don't get it.
> 
> Not quite: e,g. you can create a new tab for "toto.c", switch to toto.h,
> then resize some windows, then select the "toto.c" tab and it will
> switch the buffer to toto.c without reverting the window sizes.
> 

Ok, that might be useful.

>>> In mpc.el I could imagine using it to switch
>>> between various selections.
>> I don't know what mpc.el is, so the statements has no meaning.
> 
> It's emacs/lisp/mpc.el (new in Emacs-23.2), a front end (client) for the
> Music Player Daemon.  So think of it as switch between different
> selections in Rhythmbox's browser.

Well, I don't use Rhythmbox either, so ... :-)

> 
>>>> But implementation for the primary use case (window configurations)
>>>> should not have to suffer because of other uses.
>>> I still don't understand what kind of suffering you're referring to.
>>> If you could describe more concretely (e.g. what kind of undesirable
>>> user-behavior could happen in which case and why).
> 
>> The most obvious thing is flickering.  When the user clicks on the tab Gtk+
>> switches tab, there is nothing you can do about that.
> 
> I think we need to define "tab" here.  For me a "tab" is a little
> rectangle on the screen with a label.  The actions on this tab are
> usually linked to switching the content of an X window that's
> drawn underneath.
>>From what you write I get the impression that your notion of a "tab"
> includes not just the tab itself but also the window underneath.

It is not my notion, it is Gtk+.

> 
>> Depending on what was drawn in that widget previously, something else
>> is shown than what was shown in the old wiindows before.
> 
> If I understand correctly, that means that Gtk tabs have a built-in
> semantics of "switch the window underneath the tabbar".
> That's obviously too restrictive for the kinds of use cases I suggest,
> so we'd have to hack around it, e.g. by creating a dummy 0-pixel high
> X-window where Gtk can "switch tabs" at its heart content without
> bothering us.

I'm looking into that now.  There is that damned border though...

	Jan D.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 154+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09  9:47 Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch A. Soare
2010-04-09 11:15 ` Jan D.
2010-04-10  1:22   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-10  1:36     ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-10  6:12       ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-11  1:16         ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-11 12:50           ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2010-04-11 15:40             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-11 15:28           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-11 16:05             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 18:32               ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-12 23:47                 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-13  3:50                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13  5:29                     ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-13 13:05                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 23:34                         ` Header windows (was: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch.) Juri Linkov
2010-04-14  5:03                         ` Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch Richard Stallman
2010-04-14 14:30                           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13  6:53                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-13 12:28                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13  5:53                   ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 12:30                     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 20:54                       ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-21 16:58                       ` Text in Gtk tool bar. (Was: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch.) Jan Djärv
2010-04-23  8:35                         ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-23  9:33                           ` Jan D.
2010-04-23 16:46                             ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-23 17:47                               ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-11 18:09             ` Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch Drew Adams
2010-04-12 23:45             ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-13  2:42               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-13  6:29                 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 17:59                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-13 18:15                   ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-13 18:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-10  1:47     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-10  2:19       ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-10  6:15       ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10  9:14         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-10  9:46           ` joakim
2010-04-10 10:18             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-10 11:01               ` joakim
2010-04-10 12:38               ` Štěpán Němec
2010-04-10 14:58               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-10 10:58             ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 12:09               ` joakim
2010-04-11  1:18             ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-10 10:52           ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10  5:51     ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 15:19       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-10 15:33         ` Chong Yidong
2010-04-10 18:51           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-10 16:10         ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 16:40           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-10 17:06             ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 16:42           ` Davis Herring
2010-04-10 17:11             ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 17:16               ` Davis Herring
2010-04-10 17:54                 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 18:44                   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-10 19:14                     ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 19:51                       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-10 21:12                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-11 10:56                         ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-11 15:09                           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-10 19:00           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-10 19:07             ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2010-04-10 19:56               ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-12 16:14         ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-12 19:18           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 20:22             ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-12 21:02               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-13 15:08         ` René Kyllingstad
2010-04-10 16:06       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-11 12:11       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-11 18:09         ` Drew Adams
2010-04-12 23:49           ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-13  2:58             ` Drew Adams
2010-04-13  4:11               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-13 16:15                 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-14 10:30                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-13 19:53 grischka
2010-04-10 17:33 A. Soare
2010-04-09 13:33 A. Soare
2010-04-01 16:52 Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-01 17:45 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-01 18:03   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-01 20:18     ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-02  7:10       ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-01 20:51   ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-02  6:49     ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-02  9:21       ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-02  2:06   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-02  7:00     ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-02  6:53 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-02  9:59   ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-02 15:10     ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-02 16:55       ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-05  8:50       ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-10 12:44         ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 17:34           ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-10 18:03             ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-10 22:09               ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-11  5:45                 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-11  8:16                   ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-11 10:52                     ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-11 17:28                       ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-11 18:33                         ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-21  8:55                         ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-21  9:46                           ` David Kastrup
2010-04-21 15:43                             ` Juri Linkov
     [not found]                               ` <jwv633k4rn2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2010-04-22  8:16                                 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-22 15:08                                   ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-23  8:33                                     ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-21 13:54                           ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-04-21 15:45                           ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-21 16:04                             ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-22  8:14                               ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-22 16:20                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-24 18:45                                   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-23 16:53                             ` Drew Adams
2010-04-23 18:02                               ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-23 18:28                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-24  9:17                                   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-24 14:41                                     ` Drew Adams
2010-04-24 18:49                                       ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-24 19:24                                         ` Drew Adams
2010-04-25  5:36                                           ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-25  9:15                                             ` martin rudalics
2010-04-10 19:19             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-02 16:19     ` Uwe Siart
2010-04-02 18:31       ` Daniel Colascione
2010-04-02 20:38         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-03  6:29         ` Uwe Siart
2010-04-03  9:07           ` Uwe Siart
2010-04-02  6:53 ` Uwe Siart
2010-04-02  7:25   ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-04 11:01     ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-02 12:19   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-01 13:07 Jan Djärv
2010-04-01 13:24 ` Leo
2010-04-01 18:02 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-01 20:13   ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-09 23:27     ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-09 23:54       ` Drew Adams
2010-04-10  0:17         ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-10  2:56       ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-04-11  1:06         ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-01 18:50 ` Chong Yidong
2010-04-01 20:08   ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-01 20:09   ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-01 21:53   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-09  7:23 ` alin.s
2010-04-09  9:34   ` Jan D.

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