On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:28:26PM -0400, Beartooth wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:41:23 -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid
wrote:
> [...]
> >>> Tabs, on the other hand, are extremely
useful - I dream of the day
> >> they come to dillo, making it able to have
many pages rendered at
> >> once (each with dillo's lightning speed).
> >
> > Yes, they're useful. I used to enjoy tabs in
the window manager
> > (fluxbox), but I also understand there's plenty
of people without
> > tabs in the window manager.
> >
> > The main reason for not coding tabs already
in the official
> > dillo is that there were higher priorities. The
tabs patch was a
> > several-features in a huge combo that the author
was not willing
> > to split.
> >
> > The good news of this story is that you can
get that patchset
> > from a compilation by kiyo on what's regarded as
the "i18n misc"
> > dillo:
> >
> > http://t
eki.jpn.ph/pc/software/index-e.shtml
> >
> > I find this compilation a very good thing
to have, bacause
> > users get what they want while we can work on a
more long-term
> > viable dillo (see rationale in my former posts).
> [...]
> Fwiw, as a thoroughly subtechnoid user, I've been
running the "i18n misc"
> dillo with tabs for quite a while now. (I'm not sure
why -- most likely
> some yum repository for FC5 sees it as a higher release
number -- but I'm
> glad.)
>
> The tabs are indeed a fine thing. Unfortunately, I
can't offer anything in
> return but praise; but this is meant to be read as a
*lot* of that. There
> have been times when I had as many as a dozen open, and
always with great
> success. Many, many thanks to the developers!
Thanks for the recognition!
FWIW, if you pick the vanilla dillo and use fluxbox,
you'll
also have TABS (i.e. TABS have nothing to do with the
number of
open windows that dillo can handle).
--
Cheers
Jorge.-
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