[bt-devel] New Window Arrangement Mode

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Gary Holmlund wrote:
>
>   
>> I propose to add two new windows arrangement modes, tabbed and tiled.
>>
>> http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/New_Window_Arrangement_Modes
>>
>> What do you think?
>>     
>
> Looks very good, especially the tabbed one could be very handy and easy
> to use. I presume there's some kind of RMB menu in the tab label or
> some other way to close it?
>   
Yes, it has a RMB close with a Ctrl+F4 shortcut. There are complaints 
about Qt now having a close button on these tabs.
> We have had some discussion with Jaak about our windowing system. We
> both agreed that a tabbed interface would be good, but so that several
> windows could be opened inside a tab. And the windows should be
> separated by splitters - now the windows can't be easily resized, the
> manual mode is clumsy. But this would need a complete redesign and
> rewrite.
>   
This sounds interesting. It seems that adding splitters inside windows 
is independent of adding the tabbed view. Shall I go ahead?

Gary