Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch.

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Jan Djärv wrote:


> You guys seem to think that tabs are just extra buttons to be pressed.  
> In Gtk+ they are not.  When you press on a tab an whole new Gtk widget 
> (with associated X window) covering the whole frame is switched in.  So 
> the old contents is not shown. 

This I think is why I liked the idea of whole-emacs-frames being "in" 
gtk tab notebooks rather than vice-versa.  So what are the tab notebooks 
"in" from the emacs perspective? It doesn't matter, some sort of 
transient thingy created and destructed on demand - doesn't really need 
to be visible to the emacs lisp side, since the x11-level window manager 
plus the outer gtk notebook layer is acting as the "window manager" 
level layer to emacs frames.



OTOH - can one fudge a gtk notebook with funny dimensions and catch
the tab change event? i.e. rather than putting the old contents "truly" 
in the tab notebook

 _______________
|   \___\_______|
|+-------------+|
||             ||
||             ||
|+-------------+|
|_______________|

fake it with a zero-sized content of each tab, and just put the contents 
next to it?

 _______________
|___\___\_______|
+---------------+
|               |
|               |
+---------------+

There might be fugliness problems, of course.