Difference between revisions of "Tabbed Windows Extension Discussion"
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=== Should we have one window with tabs or should we have several windows, each of them with tabs? === | === Should we have one window with tabs or should we have several windows, each of them with tabs? === | ||
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| + | OpenOffice.org has a lot of places where nowadays a new window is created or the existing one is replaced with new content (depending on the current content and the new content). In an application supporting tabs we could convert all of them to create a new tab instead of a new window. As this can be done in a central place of the code it is comparably easy to achieve and in fact it's the approach we took for our demo extension. | ||
=== How should users tell OpenOffice.org that they want to open a new window? === | === How should users tell OpenOffice.org that they want to open a new window? === | ||
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Opening tabs and windows
Should we have one window with tabs or should we have several windows, each of them with tabs?
OpenOffice.org has a lot of places where nowadays a new window is created or the existing one is replaced with new content (depending on the current content and the new content). In an application supporting tabs we could convert all of them to create a new tab instead of a new window. As this can be done in a central place of the code it is comparably easy to achieve and in fact it's the approach we took for our demo extension.
