Hi John, John Morris wrote: > Thanks, Andreas, for giving me hope. I'll look forward to that change > in a future version. My problem with the MDI (I never new the name > before) is that I generally need to work with multiple windows in each > of several different applications. While I agree that it can be done, > it's not easy to set things up so I can see a good bit of two or more > Scribus documents while simultaneously giving myself access to my > browser, an email from a client, and a couple of other windows. What do > you do when you need to look at two Scribus documents simultaneously?
Don't know how your Mac window manager treats Scribus windows, but normally there should be 3 buttons in upper right corner of the (Scribus) application window; 'Minimize', 'Restore down' and 'Close', respectively from left to right. Those buttons are 'document-window-specific' and should not be confused with the similar 'application-specific-ones' often above them (but last time I used a Mac they were in the upper-left corner). By holding the mouse pointer over them you should see their names in a tooltip frame. 'Restore down' permits resizing multiple document windows inside of the main (Scribus) application window. Maybe I should not add this; I use a windowing system where I can define as many 'Desktops' as I like; one for IRC and E-mail and such, another for webbrowser and FTP-client, third for managing local files and such, and a fourth/fifth/sixth for graphical work. I can switch quickly between desktops either vith a mouseclick or a keyboard shortcut. My systems are Linuxes; there must be a way to do multiple desktops on a Mac? Cheers Sveinn ? Felli > >> Jeffrey Silverman-2 wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, John Morris <johnjeff at editide.us> >>> wrote: >>> >> >> Hi All, >>>> I'm new to Scribus, but I have been doing DTP since about 1990. I >>>> really >>>> like the basic layout of Scribus, with one exception. I'm a Mac >>>> user and >>>> I don't like the whole window-within-a-window thing. Is there any >>>> way to >>>> revert to normal Mac behavior? >>>> I'm using Scribus 1.3.5 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 on a 2.6GHz MacBook >>>> Pro with >>>> 2GB of RAM and 2.6GB free on the boot drive. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >> >> John >>>> >> > >>> I'm betting the answer is "no" because Scribus works with X-Windows not >>> cocoa or whatever Mac's window manger is called. >>> >> >> You loose that bet. Scribus uses the Qt library which is based on >> Carbon on >> OSX (and the latest Qt version might even be based on Cocoa IIRC). >> >> We will probably drop the multiple documents interface (MDI) for all >> platforms in the next Scribus version. >> I myself always use a single maximized child window inside the Scribus >> window anyway. >> >> /Andreas > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
