Bug 65367 - Feature Request: Dockable frames..
Summary: Feature Request: Dockable frames..
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2003-10-02 11:26 UTC by Andreas Sigg
Modified: 2003-10-02 12:29 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Sigg 2003-10-02 11:26:42 UTC
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..)
Comment 1 George Staikos 2003-10-02 11:35:51 UTC
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. 
Comment 2 George Staikos 2003-10-02 11:36:05 UTC
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! 
Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2003-10-02 11:38:37 UTC
This should be rather the window manager's work. 
 
 
Comment 4 Andreas Sigg 2003-10-02 12:29:33 UTC
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 ;-)).