From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch. Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:46:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <30298845.656931270806476838.JavaMail.www@wwinf4631> <4BBF0C6C.7000909@swipnet.se> <4BC01768.6070804@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270892793 26710 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2010 09:46:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 11:46:32 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 1O0XGp-00088c-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:46:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0XGp-0000PT-B2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0XGh-0000Ol-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35041 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0XGe-0000OZ-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0XGc-0003bV-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:46282 helo=gate.verona.se) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0XGc-0003a2-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:46:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id o3A9k8Gl001517; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:46:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:14:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:123427 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Jan Dj=E4rv wrote: >> >> >> Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-04-10 03.47: >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Stefan Monnier >>> =A0wrote: >>>> >>>> Tabs may seem like a good idea to switch between different >>>> window-configurations, >>> >>> >>> Switching between named window configuration seems like a good idea - >>> but is tabs actually needed for that? >> >> Needed, no. =A0The best GUI for it? =A0Probably. > > > So there are two parts of this: > > - Implementing tabs. > - Better handling of window configurations, probably including naming, > save and restore etc. Dont we have this already in "winner" or "winring" or some of the existing window configuration packages? IMHO tabs should just be buttons that generate events that by default are bound to activating a particular window configuration. Then again, window configurations could be further enhanced by finishing one of the "window group" proposals discussed some time ago on this list, but that nots necesary for tabs. > Could we please move the second part to the main developing branch so > we can take advantage of that part as soon as possible? > --=20 Joakim Verona