On 06/01/2009 03:04 AM, Josh Rickmar wrote:
> Hi. Recently, I found out about the uzbl browser[1]. This application is
> unique in that it tries to follow the UNIX philosophy as closely as
> possible. As a result, it does not provide tabs, but leaves the problem
> of multiple pages up to the window manager (which is how I think it
> should be done).
Why should that be done by the window manager which has far less information
about the specific "problem" than the application itself.
I know that some people here just want to be elite for the sake of it, but
how can you do these things when using WM "tabs" instead of browser tabs:
1.) Decide whether to open it in a foreground or background tab.
2.) Show a throbber or something to see if the page is still loading, or
already done
3.) Save the session
4.) Group tabs by a window. E.g. sometimes it can be useful to have 2 windows
with 10 tabs each, grouped by a specific task. In your case you would have
to open a specific tag for each of these tasks, but how would you assign
new "tabs" to the correct window?
5.) Color coding of tabs according to which domain the belong to (lots of
extensions
do that, and it's quite useful)
6.) Google chrome opens new tabs next to the originator of where this tab was
opened.
And when you close it, it switches back to the originator. Nifty feature
which
firefox should really also have but, again, impossible when just using WM
tabs.
7.)-9.) Close other tabs, reload all tabs, duplicate tab etc. not possible or
only possible if uzbl itself has code for managing all it's windows,
which is contradicts it's philosophy
10.) If you use the WM key to close a "tab", how would you close all browser
windows?
This would again be a feature by the browser, since your WM can't close all
windows.
11.)-100.) Find yourself, but you got my points.
Of course you might not feel the need for having these features, but please tell
me 10 proper points, why NOT having full control over tabs in your browser makes
more sense.
--
Martin
PS: Please feel free to forward that to the uzbl mailing list
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