On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:29:54 -0700, Chris Palmer wrote: I won't even start to comment on all of it, mainly because this is going off-topic and it would make a really long message.
Let's pretend mainstream window managers like Window Maker, KWM and Gnome WM Of The Week all supported tabs. How would Dillo tell the window manager to attach the new window to an existing tab group? Afaik there is no general protocol for this. I'm pretty sure ICCCM has nothing to say on this topic.
You really haven't looked in to how tabbing window managers work, have you? If so, imho, you are in no place to make comments about the subject. Making it a simple and short story: Clients/windows can be identified by many means, and the window manager can be instructed to group all the windows that match those criterias.
See above. If the toolkit used for both the application and the window manager were the same, and the toolkit had a general mechanism for tabs, it would be pretty easy. But not all window managers are implemented in Gtk, so a protocol is needed.
I must be a pure looney for having a working tabbing window manager without such a protocol then. Guess I've just imagined it all for several years now. -- shared, don't bother to answer, i know you didn't get it