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2020
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It is time for a war on tabsWe (as a UI shell project) see the limits of our territory as the window, when there is the assumption nowadays that MDI tabbed interfaces are where most significant user activity takes place. Yet interacting with different views/documents within those windows is not standardised, so the user has to remember which app they are using, then select the appropriate actions to:
All this causes additional cognitive load/dissonance when using your computing device. I'm not saying Plasma needs to become a tabbed window manager, but we can do better, and it is definitely time to declare war on the mess above. |
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Welcome back ;)
Welcome back ;)
See https://phabricator.kde.org/T10233
Thanks! Am on the phab task
Thanks! Am on the phab task now.
Indeed
Yep, it should be standardized, I like Kate's "tabbing".
Tabbed MDI interfaces
I still Waterfox Classic (supports old Mozilla plugins) just to keep using the "Tree Style Tabs" plugin, which is the best tabbed MDI interface I've ever used.
There seems to be a current
There seems to be a current 'Tree Style Tab' plugin - is this the same one? Was the old NPAPI version better in some way that led you keep using it via Waterfox?