Instead of requiring every application to implement their own form of tabs, why not instead support tabs at the window manager level? Imagine being able to combine tabs from different applications.
Perhaps a better metaphor is the one of Window Groups. Windows can be grouped together, such that their title bars are combined into tabs and their position and size are all synchronized.
For an example of what I mean, see Fluxbox’s Tabs.
Mac OS X’s Aqua Windows should natively support tabs, wherein windows from different applications could even be grouped.
The tab code in Adium and Colloquy is really nice; perhaps Apple should be inspired by that.
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