Re: Bug#45109: Manage open documents with tabbed list, like Konqueror

On Sunday 14 July 2002 22:10, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> Hi
>
> I don't like the tabs approach either, but since it's an often requested
> feature, I'll have a look at it AFTER KDE 3.1

As said otherwhere in this tread: I do not think we should recycle bad GUI 
designs, just because we grew accustomed to them.

IMHO, we should much rather start a FAQ in the manual, we could put "Why 
doesen't Kate have a tab bar?" as FAQ #1;)

I am normally ready to spend time implementing wished features, but for this 
one I simply can't see that it could be made in a resonably well working way.

There are allready so many features/behaviours in Kate that needs to be fixed, 
including the IDEAl mode (buggy, crashy, weird, so far) and the behaviour of 
the tool views in "classic" mode (confusing, inconsistent) that adding 
another not well defined metafor would be a bad damage.

I know that few users complain about those issues, my guess is that they avoid 
interacting with those interfaces because they do not work well, and then 
demand tab bars because they think that is good because they had that in 
windows. I'd much rather we identified the problems with the kdockwindow 
system and come up with solutions. Same for the IDEAl thing.

-anders