Re: Gtk tabs in emacs, new branch.

[Jan Djärv]

Stefan Monnier skrev 2010-04-10 03.22:
> > It isn't any "idea" as such, it is practicallity and user experience. For
> > example, I tried having switching in elisp, but it is too slow (causes
> > flicker) and there are race conditions between when the widget does the
> > switching and when Emacs thinks the switch is done.
>
> > There is nothing in the current implementation that excludes lisp
> > functions for switching, creation, e.t.c, but it doesn't give any
> > advantages, just complications.
>
> Tabs may seem like a good idea to switch between different
> window-configurations, but there can actually be other uses for it.
> And even for that use, there can be different choices in terms of which
> tabs to show, ...
> All that needs to be written in Lisp.

I'm not a big fan for making things general just for the sake of making things 
general so we maybe in the future can add something we don't know what it is now.

Are there any concrete examples of other uses?  I still think window 
configurations are the "natural" thing, as this is how tabs are used in web 
browsers, other editors, IDE:s and so on.  That doesn't mean that tabs must be 
exclusively about window configurations.  The implementation can easily be 
made to do tabs also for "other" lisp-based uses.  But implementation for the 
primary use case (window configurations) should not have to suffer because of 
other uses.

But I still haven't seen any example of other uses, so I haven't made gtk-tabs 
for that.

        Jan D.