Some configuration option should be provided to hide the close (X) button that appears on the each tab. In my current workflow I use window tabs heavily, and removed the window close button(via window-decorations). I close the window with right click on title or shortcuts. I could not find any way to remove the (X) that appears on each tab of a group of windows Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Group 2 or more windows together, a close (X) button appears on each tab 2. Accidentally click on it when trying change windows
I'd rather not add an option for this (deeming it too much of a corner use-case). Now, I guess we could implement some "smart" hiding, a la, e.g. firefox: in firefox, the close button gets hidden for all tabs except the active one, when tab size becomes too small (because there are too many). Would that work for you ?
Yes, that's an appropriate compromise. I any case should you wish to implement the full request, could you not reuse the settings for the presence of the close button (from configure buttons)? That is if I don't want the close window button, the tab close window button would also not appear.
@Rodrigo I guess that would work too, but then I'm sure to get a bug report to ask for having the tab-close button and not the window close button ... ok. So now I also realize that the window close button is actually only closing the current tab when several windows are grouped. Maybe I need to think more about this :)
> ok. So now I also realize that the window close button is actually only > closing the current tab when several windows are grouped. Maybe I need to > think more about this :) maybe make the normal close button a "close window group" with maybe a dialog asking whether that's what is really wanted like closing multiple tabs in a browser. Hiding the close buttons by default on the non-active tab might still be a nice addition.
@Martin on the window close button, I agree. Now: should that go to oxygen ? Or upstream (kwin) ? (so that all tabbed decoration have consistent behavior)
> Now: should that go to oxygen ? Or upstream (kwin) ? (so that all tabbed > decoration have consistent behavior) I'd say KWin (libkdecoration) as we need to make that in a way that we don't run into issues with trying to decorate our own window.
>maybe make the normal close button a "close window group" I think that would change the semantics of the closing button too much. I've given it a bit more though and came up with the following option A dropdown in the "configure button..." dialog Show close button : {Always, Only on Active, Never}; Additionally to ensure the different semantics a new close all windows button would be added, which would, akin to the appmenu icon, only show up if there are tabs in the current window. I can add some mockups if desired. I'm also willing to implement this, provided I can have someone to ask questions about the codebase.
Presuming the close button behavior stays at it is, the only thing required is the deco to provde or interpret an option to show close buttons for each tab (as close still closes the active one) In general, i'd agree that if the deco is configured to not show a close button, it should not appear in tabs either. If this is not the case (ie. close is supposed to be generally shown) the decoration could hide the global close button in favor of the individual ones. About closing all tabbed windows by the global close button: Right now one can keep clicking the close button until the window disappears. If the close button behavior changes to close all open tabs, we'll have to ask the user (the behavior in a way differs from the one of untabbed windows) what means you click the close button and then point and click the "ok" button, ie. this will only benefit for many tabbed windows (>> 2) The question here is how window tabbing is used - open browser tabs can easily count dozens ;-)
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