On 4/9/10, Markus <kamika...@web.de> wrote: > Am Freitag 09 April 2010 23:10:48 schrieb Chani: > > > > while I can see this being handy for something like Qt Designer, it'd be a > > PITA for something like a web browser or okular. > > > Web browsers and Okular are single-window apps by design. Sure, you can show > more than one window at the same time, but usually those do not need to be > shown at the same time. > So with only a single document being displayed and the netbook GUI defaulting > to fullscreen app execution anyway, in those cases the Minimize button and > the > Hide menu do the same thing: Hide the current window and showing the > Newspaper > activity. > I don't know about Qt Designer -- I was more thinking about GIMP and such. > In some cases websites spawn small popup windows, often resulting in > interaction with the smaller windows having effects on the main window (eg. a > web forum opens a new login window). Both in this case and GIMP-like apps, > the > smaller windows are clearly connected to. >
luckily those kind of applications are tthe exception, i can only think about gimp and qt designer (there is also koppete, but works quite good anyways with maximized windows) gimp will shortly change to a single window layout anyways. and keep in mind, that this shell was ddsigned from day zero for "content consuming" complex creation workflows like using ggraphics applications are explicitly not supported, a catch-all use shell already exists, and is plasma-desktop Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
