Tile Selected Tabs Directly, without Minimize All & Restore Tabs

Tile Selected Tabs Directly, without Minimize All & Restore Tabs

Currently, if we want to tile some tabs from a group of tabs inside a window we will have to minimize all the tabs first, then restore each tab which we wanted to tile together, & only then we can use the Tile command to get the job done. Although this method works, it's actually very poor in usability & it's too much hassle to use repeatedly on a daily basis. Now, what if we can simply select a few tabs, & execute Tile command to tile just the selected tabs directly? This will make Tile tabs feature a lot more user-friendly & practical to use in daily tasks.

I have created a few buttons to do so using Windows Panel & they work quit well, but my workaround still suffer from some annoying limitations. This led me to believe that Opera developers should implant this feature internally & further improve it to become a solid function that many Opera user will enjoy. We might even able to use it as a selling point to attract new user, because currently Opera is the only major browser that support both MDI & tile tabs.

Thanks for reading, please consider my suggestion if any Opera developer read this.

PS: For those who're interested in the Quick Tile buttons, get 'em here: http://my.opera.com/dude09/blog/quick-tile-with-windows-panel

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I see two main ways to accomplish this

1) Holding Ctrl in order to select pages either on the tab bar or in the windows panel.
2) Some kind of command that doesn't require holding down a key, i.e. you press a button or some keyboard binding, then you have all the time you want to select pages and then you choose what to do.

Note that this is really about selecting pages, tiling it just one of the many uses. Minimize selected tabs, maximize selected tabs, close selected tabs, restore selected tabs, tile selected tabs, lock selected tabs... just about anything you can do to a single page, except applied to all the selected ones at once, really.

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Originally posted by Frenzie:

I see two main ways to accomplish this
1) Holding Ctrl in order to select pages either on the tab bar or in the windows panel.

2) Some kind of command that doesn't require holding down a key, i.e. you press a button or some keyboard binding, then you have all the time you want to select pages and then you choose what to do.

Or Opera developers can implant something similar to Showcase (Fx) or QuickTab (IE), a "Visual Windows Manager" for Opera if you will. Then allow user to select multiple thumbnails & execute Tile, Reload, Detach/Group, Pin, Bookmark...etc.

Originally posted by dude09:

Or Opera developers can implant something similar to Showcase (Fx) or QuickTab (IE), a "Visual Windows Manager" for Opera if you will. Then allow user to select multiple thumbnails & execute Tile, Reload, Detach/Group, Pin, Bookmark...etc.

Perhaps, though I would see that more as an additional option than the main method, if you will. Titles identify pages better and faster than thumbnails imho.

Originally posted by Frenzie:

Perhaps, though I would see that more as an additional option than the main method, if you will. Titles identify pages better and faster than thumbnails imho.

Hmm... Did you try Showcase extension in Firefox? It's GUI is butt ugly but the functionality is very nice, & it's now integrated into Fx 3.7 (which looks a lot better than the extension). Compare to Opera's windows manager/panel, it makes managing tabs & windows feel a lot more intuitive - let's face it, Opera's windows manager/panel is kinda clunky because the selection area is too "little" & sometimes I selected/moved the wrong tab because it's too difficult to hit the correct "line".

Anyway, this thread is about the Tile command... So let's not derailed this discussion to far away.

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then i have 20tabs is pain, if i need only two or four pages to be tilled, so i seek for improvements here

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Originally posted by einu:

then i have 20tabs is pain

It takes no longer with a 100 tabs than it does with 3. Minimize all, click on the ones you want, tile vertically. It really doesn't matter that the other 98 tabs are minimised since they're not visible. As soon as you select a tab or switch to it, it is restored.

The first suggestion in the other thread to dock tabs on dragging them to the edge of the window is best. Any solution that requires tabs to be selected for tiling is no better than what we already have.

This button will tile two tabs. Click to tile a tab to the left; click and hold to tile it to the right. Quote my post and modify the code to suit your monitor resolution — mine is 1280x1024.

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