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In my installation of kde, i've decided to disable all forms of tabbing and rely on window grouping alone. This works well as it gives me a little bit of extra screen space and makes the interface look a bit more sleak and streamlined. There are, however, two major trade-offs that i would like to see an answer for if at all possible.

The first is that in order to close the "group" of windows i have to right click the title bar and select "close group" or hit the current X (close) button untill all windows in that group are closed. I'd like to see a "close group X button" as an additional possible button that you could add to your "title bar buttons" to simplify this.

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in accordance with the suggestions below i've split the ticket, the second ticket number is 96113 if you are interested in the second idea.
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These sounded like good ideas when i thought them up and hopfully someone else with the skills to make these things happen will too. I'd do it personally but i am not currently skilled at linux/qt programming.

The admin's will probably ask you to split this up between the "close group button" and "recently closed windows" ideas so they can be voted on and implemented individually.

Some thoughts:
I think the close group button is a great idea - minimize as a group, maximize as a group, move, resize, change desktops etc. as a group. Why not close as a group? I know at least some window decorations (qtcurve?) have a per-window close button on each tab, and I don't remember if the main close button did the whole group or not (I'm not in KDE at the moment to test). Changing the close button (or adding an optional button that the user can add if they desire) to close the whole group just seems a natural fit (with the usual, disable-able prompt: "did you really want to close all of these applications?").

As for the recently closed windows, I suppose that the recently closed tabs features might as well be extended to recently closed windows. I find it surprising that Rekonq doesn't show tabs from recently closed sessions, but only recently closed tabs from the current session. Konqueror's Go-> Closed items shows tabs closed from current and prior sessions, Chrome's closed tabs feature also shows from prior sessions. In the case of Dolphin, I don't think I will ever use the recently closed tabs feature, since I already know the full path or quickest way to get to a particular directory I want to see, and use shortcuts in the places panel for frequenly visited places.
In my case, since I generally open multiple browser (including file) windows and close them once I'm done with whatever page(s) I was looking at, I find that showing only the current session's closed tabs is not very useful.

Thanks for your opinions!

Interestingly qtcurve is exactally what i'm using. works great too! and no, sadly the main button doesn't do the whole group. if they wanted to switch the main button to close an entire group that'd be great for me but i figured they should probably leave it optional by adding a second button option. Plus by leaving a second option they cover any decoration options that don't include the individual close buttons per tab.

The recently closed tab feature is really just a minor annoyance, heck the both are really. i just thought they be nice neat features that would enhance the user experiance enough to warrent their inclusion.

I also agree that it my be less important in say dophin because it's a file manger but if you can do it in one place it shouldn't be hard to stretch it there. and i've actually used the recently closed before as a quick way to lauch something if i accidentally click an X i shouldn't have. actually thinking about it kde already remembers sessions i believe so it shouldn't be to hard to tie into that, or maybe it is.. who knows...

anyway, i don't want to sound like a nitpicker, i just think that little touches like that make the experiance in a desktop environment really complete.

oh and if an admin does want me to split this then i will do so asap. don't really know how the system works yet, this is my second time posting here. thanks again.

airdrik is right, please create a new idea with your second suggestion, then edit this one and remove the part about the second suggestion. We like to keep ideas separate to ensure we don't get "I like one but not the other so I wasn't quite sure what to vote"