On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Andrea Diamantini <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/20/2011 09:44 PM, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: >> >> Tabbed browsing, when it was introduced, offered huge breakthroughs in >> browsing comfort. But there has been little changes in the way tabs >> have been dealt with ever since. This has given rise to two important >> use cases- >> >> 1. Many people use tabs as temporary bookmarks to mark whatever they >> want to surf or check out later. They just open it up in a new tab. >> For example, I find a good link or tutorial, and I open up a new tab, >> so that I can look at it when I have the time. This has given rise to >> many many unorganised tabs waiting to be viewed. They clutter up the >> tab strip and make tabbed browsing a harder task. >> >> 2. Many users have this specific style of browsing - I look for xyz in >> Google, then open up 4-5 relevant entries in new tabs. I open up links >> in these tabs further in new tabs. This increases the number of tabs. >> Many users today have an average tab count of over 20. >> >> Rekonq currently has "< >" buttons at the end of the tab strip to >> browse through tabs. But there is no way of organising or grouping >> those tabs under groups, so that they can be expanded and collapsed at >> will. This addition will add a logical and more intuitive way of >> browsing through tabs. Firefox 4 has introduced the Panorama view to >> group tabs. Opera has also made it possible to group tabs in clusters >> which can be collapsed, allowing for smooth browsing. I wish to >> implement this feature in Rekonq as a GSOC project this summer. I >> would like to have somebody mentor me on this project. >> >> Any kind of reviews / suggestions are welcome. >> > > Hi Tirtha, > I really like your idea but I have to say this is probably something that > can fit GSoC 2012 :D > Anyway, let's talk a bit about. I'll write down here some sparse ideas I had > thinking a bit about your > proposal. > > - I'd like to add this feature as something available as a rekonq page > (about:tabs or something like that) > > - people can group tabs and save groups as "sessions" (let's call them this > way). Any session consist of a window with the tabs listed there. > > - rekonq can start up with one of these "sessions". Yes I agree with this idea. I had misunderstood it earlier. Groups can be called as sessions, and be independently loaded and stored. > > - about implementation, we basically need to rewrite the MainView class, > finally removing the hated KTabWidget and providing a... QGraphicsWidget (?) > there. This will be super dangerous :) > > I like this, but I'm a bit worried from. And I'm really not sure I can > properly mentor this project on all its parts. > Can you please detail a bit more your ideas? > > Regards, > > -- > Andrea Diamantini, adjam > GPG Fingerprint: 57DE 8E32 7D1A 0E16 AA52 59D8 84F9 3ECD DBF9 730F > > rekonq project > WEB:http://rekonq.kde.org > IRC: rekonq@freenode > >
-- Tirtha Chatterjee National Institue of Technology, Durgapur _______________________________________________ rekonq mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/rekonq
