From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:03:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <30298845.656931270806476838.JavaMail.www@wwinf4631> <4BBF0C6C.7000909@swipnet.se> <87ljcwaxfv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BC016DA.60400@swipnet.se> <87d3y63gzt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4BC1EAB2.6080900@harpegolden.net> <4BC215A5.6010809@swipnet.se> <87y6gsfadn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <874ojgdj5c.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271222833 22206 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 05:27:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, David@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 07:27:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1v82-0007iJ-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:27:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1v81-0001EY-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1v7v-0001ET-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38692 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1v7u-0001EL-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O1v7t-0003Ue-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50798) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O1v7t-0003Ua-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1ukm-0004Zg-8W; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:03:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:05:05 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123615 Archived-At: > If a tab is just a little rectangle on the screen associated > with an action, then the tab-bar is indistinguishable from the > tool-bar, so we might need only tool-bars inserted into the window-tree. Pretty much, yes. Actually, maybe a better option is for a tabbar to be *part* of a toolbar. Logically that would be equivalent, but in GUI terms it would be disappointing. The visual appearance of tabs is very different from the visual appearance of tool bar items.