(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kwin Version: KDE 3.0.6 CVS/CVSup/Snapshot Severity: wishlist Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 2.95.3 OS: Linux OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified I'm a big fan of the tabs that the Fluxbox (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/) window manager uses and would love to see a similar functionality for the KDE window manager. The basic point of the tabs are that they appear over the windows titlebar (one per window). The tabs can be dragged and dropped on another window whereby the window the new tab is dropped on aquires the tab and you can now use the two tabs on that window to switch between the applications. This works for all windows not just subwindows of the same application. It is absolutely wonderful when you want to conserve screen space and want to group windows that you use in combination together. I often group nedit xterm and ddd windows when I'm writing code allowing me to access all my code related windows by using the tabs over a single window. You can ofcourse ungroup windows again - simply drag the tab you wish to move to a sepperate window and drop it somewhere on the desktop - it will then be ungrouped and appear in its own window again. You can read Fluxbox's authors description of his tabs here: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/newdoc.tabbing.php Since Fluxbox has KDE support I can ofcourse just use it instead of kwin but kwin has so many other nice features that I'd rather see the tabs feature incorporated into kwin :-) If this happens it would really make my day - try out fluxbox and try the feature and I think you'll agree with me that it's super cool. Since not everyone would appreciate this feature it should be made configureable and probably off by default. Best regards Jesper Juhl - jju@dif.dk (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42023 ***
The only thing that I miss in KDE (exactly: kwin) are something like the tab's fluxbox offers. And if I'd use fluxbox in kwin the kdesktop is shown in an extra window, how ugly. And I get the fluxbox taskbar, but I really more like the kde taskbar, of course. Would be very nice to have this feature. Thanks in advance, to the people willing to add tab's to kwin!