On Friday 30 August 2013 09:38:47 Coda Highland wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Charley Bay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nobody would suggest organizing a "desktop" with tabs. > > Mildly off-topic: Microsoft suggests it in Windows 8. > > (There are a number of X11 window managers that do this as well > (Matchbox for example), but they tend to be designed for specific use > cases rather than general desktop use.)
KDE does it too, optionnally, but I never saw someone use this. > > More on-topic: Xcode supports both behaviors. By default it acts like > Qt Creator, with open files in one window and a dropdown to select > among them, but you can pop a file out into its own window. I think > this is an excellent solution. Tabs are a very bad paradigm. There is a design document somewhere that explains the N pitfalls of it, that I can't seem to be able to unearth right now. -- Cristian Tibirna KDE developer .. [email protected] .. http://www.kde.org _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
