Vertically stacked tabs in Konqueror?

Is it possible somehow to stack Konqueror's tabs vertically on top of teach
other, rather than having them lined up horizontally? And if so, how would I
go about it?

Basically, I'm looking for a way to duplicate the functionality of Firefox's
Tree Style Tab plugin (http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en).
I'm actually surprised that horizontal tabs are not more widespread, given
that they offer a great overview over a large number of tabs, plus, if one is
also able to indent/dedent and rearrange them, a very smart way of organizing
tabs.

Cheers,

Robert

[David Edmundson]

> Is it possible somehow to stack Konqueror's tabs vertically on top of
> teach
> other, rather than having them lined up horizontally? And if so, how would
> I
> go about it?

The easy approach is to find the main tab widget and call:

tabWidget->setTabPosition(QTabWidget::West);

However that won't look like the screenshot in the link, in order to
achieve that you will need to subclass QTabBar, with code to draw tabs in
that style. (something that would be nice to keep generic and reusable).
Then you can call tabWidget->setTabWidget(yourNewTabBar)

Hope that makes sense, can go into more detail when not at work.

Dave

>
> Basically, I'm looking for a way to duplicate the functionality of
> Firefox's
> Tree Style Tab plugin
> (http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en).
> I'm actually surprised that horizontal tabs are not more widespread, given
> that they offer a great overview over a large number of tabs, plus, if one
> is
> also able to indent/dedent and rearrange them, a very smart way of
> organizing
> tabs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
>

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 23:44:40 david@... wrote:

> > Is it possible somehow to stack Konqueror's tabs vertically on top of
> > teach
> > other, rather than having them lined up horizontally? And if so, how
> > would I
> > go about it?
>
> The easy approach is to find the main tab widget and call:
>
> tabWidget->setTabPosition(QTabWidget::West);
>
> However that won't look like the screenshot in the link, in order to
> achieve that you will need to subclass QTabBar, with code to draw tabs in
> that style. (something that would be nice to keep generic and reusable).
> Then you can call tabWidget->setTabWidget(yourNewTabBar)
>
> Hope that makes sense, can go into more detail when not at work.
>
> Dave
>

Dave, thanks a lot for your reply! I should've probably mentioned that I'm a
mere, humble user with basically no programming knowledge ...

Well, I first of all take from your reply that vertical tabs are possible,
which is great. Simply ordering the tabs vertically is a first, good step; I'd
like to experiment with that, so perhaps if you have a second at some point,
you can explain the steps to me in detail (cf. " find the main tab widget and
call" ...)

Getting the same kind of functionality in Konqueror as Firefox's Tree Style
Tab would of course be the ultimate, but I suppose I'd actually need some
programming skills to do that. Hm, I think I'll just post it as an idea /
feature request to KDE bugs.

I've so far been using Firefox; it's a great program and I like it, but I'd
really like to switch to Konqueror in the medium term because I feel I'm
missing so much of the KDE-specific extra functionality.

Again, thanks for your help,

Bob