From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Two GTK related feature requests Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:09:06 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066709544 3206 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 04:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 06:12:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABnsc-0001gR-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:12:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABnsc-0006jf-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:12:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABnqF-0008Ve-DL for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABnqA-0008VL-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABnpe-0008R5-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.13.230.178] (helo=yxa.extundo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ABnpd-0008R0-TT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9L49E1e004583 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:09:15 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031021:emacs-devel@gnu.org:716326d4f84784ef X-Hashcash: 0:031021:emacs-devel@gnu.org:716326d4f84784ef User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17282 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17282 * "Tabbed editing". People using modern web browsers will know what I mean. It is very addictive. Essentially it would add buttons at the top of the Emacs window, one button for each buffer. Clicking on one button will change focus to that buffer. Each tab may also have a X button that kill that buffer. There are several details to be sorted out, e.g., should the tab be per-window or per-frame? Per frame is more traditional, but per-window might be useful. I suspect GTK have read-made widgets for tabbed applications. * Elisp GTK bindings. To be able to build good user interfaces from elisp, some kind of access to GTK directly from Elisp would be necessary. Some of the GTK widgets would be very useful in, e.g., Gnus. Alas, I don't have time to implement these, but thought I should mention them.