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: Re: Two GTK related feature requests Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:27:23 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20031021.131736.141255304.jet@gyve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066710522 4701 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 04:28:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 06:28:40 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 1ABo8O-0002Sb-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:28:40 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABo8L-0006pI-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:28:37 +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 1ABo7v-0006fm-0l for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABo7q-0006er-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABo7K-0006YE-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:28:05 -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 1ABo7J-0006Y8-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:27:34 -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 h9L4RV1e004867; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:27:32 +0200 Original-To: Masatake YAMATO Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031021:jet@gyve.org:9df1f9946246517c X-Hashcash: 0:031021:jet@gyve.org:9df1f9946246517c X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031021:emacs-devel@gnu.org:043d2b4750b838e0 X-Hashcash: 0:031021:emacs-devel@gnu.org:043d2b4750b838e0 In-Reply-To: <20031021.131736.141255304.jet@gyve.org> (Masatake YAMATO's message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:17:36 +0900 (JST)") 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:17284 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17284 Masatake YAMATO writes: >> * "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. > > Try this one. > http://www.jamespo.org.uk/weblog/archives/tabbar.el Excellent! Thanks. So the first feature request collapse into the second one: having elisp GTK bindings. Then tabbar.el could use the standard GTK widget for the tabs. I think it is important to use standard widgets for standard operations. It give a consistent user interface across all GTK applications. Application-specific user interface designs have a greater learning curve.