[Geany-devel] Detachable Tab

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 19.12.2011 02:38, schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>  wrote:
>> On 12/18/2011 09:13 AM, David Gomes wrote:
>>> Since I changed the name in the new_tab function of notebook.c, I expect
>>> all notebooks in Geany to have been changed, because all are notebook.c
>>> right?
>>>
>>> And yes, I know set_id is not necessary in GTK 3, so I just put both lol.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to achieve being able to send tabs from various geany
>>> notebooks.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you dig around in the mailing list archive, you should be able to find a
>> patch I submitted that does exactly what you're trying to do. IIRC there
>> were two main problems, the first is that some code (might) expect that the
>> tab be in a specific notebook (I'm think more of plugins who add tabs here),
>> and the second was that we would need a way to save which tabs ended up
>> where when the program closes, otherwise everything would revert back when
>> you restart Geany.


Even if complicated to implement, I would love being able to have 2 or 
even 3 side bars with tabs draggable between them.

Best regards.