[Bug 749335] Re: Explore options for tab integration with Unity top bar

[Flavio Zanda]

I don't think it is impossible to do at all.

Why not create a widget that copies the look of chrome's tabs? This
widget would be put on the panel and would overlay tabs on it. This and
Chromium's tab-bar could communicate through D-Bus much like global menu
and chromium's menubar do at the moment.

Actually this could be made into an extension of global menu. The
program could specify if it wishes to export a menu or the tabs and the
global-menu-tab widget would overlay the right thing.

Chromium has to be patched accordingly, so that it exports page titles,
favicons, and so that it responds to actions on the widget: not
completely trivial, but hey, it's been done once already for the
menubar.

Regarding theme compatibility: while creating a widget that overlays
some default looking tabs on the panel won't be that hard to do, to make
the program export the theme as well would be much harder. I say that
the panel-tab-bar could have a default "unity" theme, which would look
nice on both firefox and chromium, or any other program for that matter.
This is important so that it won't be app-specific.

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Title:
  Explore options for tab integration with Unity top bar