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This is the eighth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [part I | part II | part III | part IV | part V | part VI | part VII]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law, and more. The aim of this series is to explain these terms, learn something about their origins, and finally rate their importance in the field of usability and (graphical) user interface design. In part VIII, we focus on the tab.
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its also possible in windows managers like fluxbox to group different windows in a tab simply by middle clicking a window bar and drop it on another open window bar
for example, open office doesnt support tabs so if i want to have 2 opened documents, i will have to have 2 instances of open office and 2 entries in the taskbar ..to join them together in fluxbox, all that is required is just dragging one window ontop of another and they will be joined as tabs and they will have different colors to show which one has focus ..
it would have been nice to have this feature in "main stream" window manages
ps:
last time i checked, open office has an old and unmaintained plugin that adds the ability to open multiple documents in tabs