[bt-devel] Feature-a-thon - Tabs Within Windows

[Raoul Snyman]

Hi Gary,

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:08:22 -0800, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> While the top level tabbed windows I originally proposed would be easy 
> to do, I feel that the other choice you made or having tabs within 
> windows is a very good idea. I don't believe both should be done as we 
> would have tabbed windows with tabs inside of them. I don't think that 
> would look right.
> 
> I prototyped tabs within windows by taking the Qt demo program that is a 
> mdi program with QTextEdit widgets for its windows. I used a subclass of 
> QTabWidget as the windows and put the QTextEdit on each tab. Look at the 
> second graphic here:
> 
> http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/New_Window_Arrangement_Modes

This looks great, I just have one question: what would be the purpose of
these tabs-within-windows? I'm not seeing a real use-case for it. Could you
perhaps explain the reasoning behind your idea?

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