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Tabs

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Expected Behavior​

Most applications will be able to be displayed as a tab. Examples would include:

  • Office applications (which use separate windows for each document)
  • Media players

Further Suggestions​

caution

❔ Unofficial Feature(s) ❔​

This section of the documentation is a suggestion and is not part of the original specification.

The need for these/this feature(s) is still up for debate.

"Synthetic" Tab API​

Tabs are also a common pattern inside applications themselves. But, if we want to display the application's tabs as AvdanOS Tabs, we need to implement a way for the application to do so.

Types of applications that would benefit:

  • Browsers
  • Code Editors

What is a Synthetic Tab?​

A synthetic tab is a tab that is not a real application, which belongs to a parent application.

  1. A user clicks on a synthetic tab.
  2. The parent application is notified.
  3. The parent application will change its view, and display content.
  4. The synthetic tab is marked as active.