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Currently there are options to have "new tab" and "close tab" buttons on the tab bar in konqueror. To turn these on, you need to go to the konqueror configuration dialog. Although this could remain, I think it is an inefficient and inflexible way of doing things since KDE has a perfectly good toolbar customization system that is already used for the address bar and search bar. The advantage of using the toolbar customization is that you can add as many buttons as you want to the tab bar without cluttering the configuration dialog. You just add them and place them however you want. The other advantage is that you do not have to have the new tab and close tab buttons at opposite ends of the tab bar, they could be next to each other at either end. You could even have the tab scroll buttons as toolbar buttons (either as a single button or two different buttons, or even both), allowing you to position them wherever you want. Other buttons you might want are "close other tabs", "new window", "activate next tab", "activate previous tab", "detach current tab", "duplicate current tab", "move tab left", "move tab right", and probably many others. I think this would add a lot more flexibility to the tab bar.

I see three ways to do this. One way, probably the easiest for users but perhaps harder to program, would be a single toolbar with the tabs represented as single toolbar item that cannot be removed. The next would be similar, but the tab bar could be removed and, perhaps, could be placed in other toolbars besides the one it is meant for (providing even more flexibility). The third would be two toolbars, one for the area to the left of the tab bar, the other for the area to the right of the tab bar.