> There is support for this in either Qt or some additional toolkit that > KDE has built on top of it. A nice example is the Gwenview image > viewer, which allows you to rearrange its panes fairly arbitrarily. > You can make any pane an independent window if you want, or you can > dock them in the main window in arbitrary tiled arrangements. You can > stack several panes in the same location in which case they > automatically get tabs to switch between them. Apparently Gwenview > merely uses some toolkit features to implement the vast majority of > this. > > I think GTK+ used to have some support for at least some of this kind > of thing, but I think that support was either removed or deprecated > (and hence may be becoming buggy) due to the GNOME project's emphasis > on good defaults and simplicity over configurability. > > So if one were to switch to either Qt or GTK+, this might be an > argument in favor of Qt.
There is a Qt 4 port in the cvs but it's far from being anywhere usable, only an embrio. The idea was to switch to a client\server model with a light client doing only gui: http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/glob2/quatuor/ Steph -- http://nct.ysagoon.com _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
