Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing?

kai_hiwatari writes "The recently released KDE SC 4.4 Beta 1 has introduced tabbed windows as a new feature. It is now possible to tab together windows from different applications. This looks like it will be a very good productivity tool. Like the tabbed browsers, this may well end up as a feature in all desktop environments in the years ahead."

Comments

How about making it stable?

[SlightOverdose]

So far I've tried several releases of KDE4 and every one of them has been buggy as hell. Constant crashes, graphics glitches, and general random unpolished fuckups.

How about locking down functionality for a few months and focusing on stability? It's gotten so bad I've switched over to Gnome after many, MANY years of being an adamant KDE supporter.

My favorite solution:

[Hurricane78]

Instead of tabbing windows, have a screen for each window! ^^

Only if the screen becomes too big to be practical (more than your field of view or more than 360 degrees in both directions), go into the third dimension by stacking things.

Then go one step further:

Group your windows into a tree hierarchy. Or even better: A proper full graph. Depending on the things they belong to.

Now if you could just stop having the difference between opened and closed applications, we would already have that. Just make the task bar and the directory structure of your documents folder the same thing, and act as if everything were open all the time.
Then for consistency, remove the in-application tabbing (like in Firefox), an that would just be redundant.

I wonder why the KDE people did not come up with this before, with all their semantic desktop ideas?
Too much fear of the loud retards at the lower (and closer to Windows) end of the bell curve of their target group? ^^