Bug 242497

Summary: [wish + minor bug] "chromium-mode"
Product: [Unmaintained] rekonq Reporter: Hannes H <bugzilla>
Component: generalAssignee: Andrea Diamantini <adjam7>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.4.95   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: FreeBSD Ports   
OS: FreeBSD   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: screenshot of whats currently possible already
kwin rule - group all rekonq windows

Description Hannes H 2010-06-22 16:48:48 UTC
Created attachment 48232 [details]
screenshot of whats currently possible already

Version:           0.4.95 (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                FreeBSD

It is possible to tune rekonq to resemble more of a chromium-like experience with Kwin. That includes a couple of non-intuitive ways right now. Maybe you could automate that. 

If user selects "Chromium"-Mode
1) Tell Kwin to always group rekonq-windows
2) Tell oxygen-deco to add window-specific rule to highlight active window title on rekonq-windows
3) in rekonq deactivate all tabbing stuff
3) in rekonq change hotkeys ctrl-t to open new window, ctrl-w to close current window

That gives a really good experience (screenshot attached).

What is still missing and would really be great to have:
* [wish/bug?] actually multiple processes for different windows (I don't know why it uses the same process at all for different windows - tabs yes, but windows should be independent or not?)
* [small annoying bug] mouse-middle-click still opens new tab, although I told rekonq in the options to always open links in new windows
* [longterm-wish] (probably kwin-related): instead of forcing all rekonq-windows into a group, automatically group windows with their "parent" if they are spawned by another window. This way you could open a pdf in rekonq and it would appear as an extra tab, but in reality be okular :) And it would allow multiple window-groups.

Thanks for your work and please don't see "chromium-likeness" as a criticism of rekonq's current style. Since rekonq resembles chromium in many other ways I think a lot users would appreciate it :)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Andreas Krohn 2011-11-08 14:50:37 UTC
Created attachment 65396 [details]
kwin rule - group all rekonq windows

really like this idea :-)
Comment 2 Andrea Diamantini 2013-03-02 14:35:27 UTC
Im my opinion, this has been fixed with 2.x.
Feel free to reopen if not.