Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Konqueror frames should be able to hold other windows. One could imagine this functionality as following: A new toggle button is placed in one of the toolbars. If its pressed, the active frame becames dockable. Now you can just drag and drop other windows/applications, for example a text editor, a browser, whatever, in this frame. The frame removes the window decoration (title bar, slide bar) to gain more space (one can scroll with the cursor keys instead). From now on the docked applicatin behaves like its build in the konqueror frame: it remains in the frame size, can get closed with the frame, or even some drag and drop features to other frames might be possible.. Why all this? - If you give this to me, over were the days were windows garble all over my screen and have to be placed on several virtual screens (desktops) to manage them more easily.. One could ask: but if you want all in one window (= konqueror), why do you need a desktop than.. the window plays now the role of your desktop, and all your shiny desktop buttons and functions are rendered useless than. That is not right. You still need your kickbar, with panel appelts, program starter, menus, etc. And there might be windows/applications which you won't dock or release some time after they had been docked in a frame (remember: its a toggle button..). Than there were applications, like cd players, which are rather small sized windows, and which will still live on your desktop without getting docked. On the other hand, the cd player shows another usefull feature of the dockable frame: just size the frame to the players size, and drop the mixer, another player, or whatever in the other frames, and you get your musical applications all in one window (tab).. you get my drift? ;-) (maybe with a wooden skin..)
I'm sorry, this is way out of the scope of Konqueror. It might be an interesting project to build such an application separately though.
I'm sorry, this is way out of the scope of Konqueror. It might be an interesting project to build such an application separately though. Thanks for the suggestion!
This should be rather the window manager's work.
If you hand this feature out to the window manager, you should also give it the vertical/horizontal split and the tab functions.. then, konqueror gets overweight if you drop it into such a docking frame, since it has already these features. But I have to admit, that there were standard konqueror functions which are useless for docked applications, take the navigational arrow buttons for example. In turn, the docking frame could be extended with interfaces to other known konqueror features, like the bookmark manager.. imagine, once you have composed a tab with your musical devices dropped into the carefully arranged frames, you would bookmark the whole creation, and load it at startup.. (sorry, can't give up, this is my wish ;-)).