Currently, Task manager shows preview for each window of Dolphin. But it does not tell you if a Dolphin window has multiple tabs.
Can’t you see the plus sign on the taskbar icon?
I meant showing each window has how many tabs and what are those tabs.
Also the plus sign is bugged for me if what you meant was it would show when there’s only 1 window with multiple tabs.
On my computer, it appears as soon as there are two instances of the same application.
Right, but the subject of this post is what happens when one instance of Dolphin provides multiple tabs.
OP is right to say that the window preview gives no indication that there are multiple tabs.
And how exactly would you invision the previews doing that? Maybe a count bubble at best. But what would be the point of that if you don’t know what those tabs are.
OK, I hadn’t understood it that way.
Display directory name of every tabs on tooltip.
I hope you have a widescreen. Let’s say you have twelve tabs open…An option might be a listview on the thumbnail or task. An option to have dropdown listview instead of preview/thumbnail.
That could be possible, with wayland and some subsurfaces magic, but very complicated.
In dolphin there is one process per-window, so it would require to do whole separate rendering per-tab, as depending on the tabs the places panel and the toolbar might change, it isn’t just the main view.
Then exposes this to the task-manager, probably with some wayland protocol, and the task manager would need to keep a reference between the view and the tab.
So that would be very complicated, and painful to implement.
Contrary to browsers, that might render their tabs in parallel constantly, filemanagers don’t need to, only what you see on the screen is really rendered.
How do think browser have become such memory hogs ?
And that’s just for when you use application-grouping, I don’t myself.
This is actually a feature that drives me nuts on Windows when I have to use it. 99% of the time I want to switch to an app and view the last-visible tab. I don’t want to switch directly to a different tab. Having to do is is really disruptive. I would presume any implementation we did would not make selecting a tab mandatory. But even then, it would mean the expanded popup would get super cluttered with tabs. And how would tabs be distinguished from windows?
All of this sounds like a recipe for a very cluttered UI that slows you down due to the additional brainpower required to visually parse it.
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I wasn’t talking about visual preview. Visual preview for Dolphin is too small to present any real info anyway. OP was a low quality screenshot but it’s basically what my eyes see on desktop.
This is what I was thinking.
Going off OP’s suggestion: What if there was a list of tabs without previews above the thumbnail? Clicking the thumbnail will open the most recent tab, but clicking a tab is still possible.
(Apologies for the poor edit, I just repurposed the application menu as it already more-or-less had what I needed.)
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That seems like the best of both worlds and simple enough, generic enough any application cloud use it (your office app, your text editor…).
Yes. This would be very nice, and exactly what I imagined when read the OP’s idea.
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