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Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing?

Posted by timothy on from the oh-for-the-love-of-gimp dept.

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."

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  1. Chrome OS anyone? by Pharmboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't that pretty much a given feature of Chrome OS?

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  2. Re:Simply put by biryokumaru · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, yes! We could put all our applications there as we're using them, possibly even group like ones together!

    Only it wouldn't be tabs anymore, it'd be tasks, so we could call it... not the tab bar... I know! Let's call it the "Taskbar!"

    Oh, wait...

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  3. Re:Window tabs are already here by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's what Windows users always said about Opera and Mozilla tabs.

    The Microsoft put tabs in IE7 and 8.

    WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

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  4. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Just because you are too fucking stupid to be able to deal with more than one thing at a time shouldn't mean everyone else has to endure computers designed for the dumbest of the dumb.

    So I guess maximized only, no alternative mode, with be coming soon to a future GNOME desktop.

  5. Windows 1.0 by Kayamon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't this basically Windows 1.0? All applications tiled onto fullscreen?

    What goes around comes around...

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  6. Re:Simply put by RicktheBrick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes1 I can just see it now. Porn staring Jo, Porn staring Ella, Porn with both Jo and Ella. It would greatly help my effeceintcy in watching porn.

  7. Re:Simply put by feder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but how does that make me look all cool and skeptical about everything that has the word 'tabs' in it? To hell with "very useful" - it's not street, bro', that's what I'm saying!

  8. Re:Simply put by biryokumaru · · Score: 1, Funny

    That was not meant to be anonymous. Any downmods, please downmod me, not the AC post.

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  9. Re:So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fluxbox had tabbed windows - no one knows about it
    KDE gets tabbed windows - no one cares about it
    Apple puts tabbed windows in OSX - tabbed windows are stupid
    Microsoft puts tabbed windows in Windows - greatest idea ever

  10. Re:Simply put by ddegirmenci · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rather the sementic web, maybe?

  11. The tabbed interface, 0.3.56 by hedge49 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is all beginning to sound like Lotus Notes. Boy, was that a fun environment.