On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:43:25 -0400, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firstly, I agree with all prior posts that M$ has destroyed the concept
of MDI by having the window in window approach using a window menu and
having maximized sub windows, tiled or cascaded. This type of MDI is
what another user called winMDI and I totally agree that it sucks big time.
However, MDI is still used (very well I might add) by other applications
such as IDE's (KDevelop, Netbeans, Eclipse and even Apples X-Code).
Many have suggested that MDI should be the job of the window manager.
This cannot work for the time being since no *nix app should ever be
tied into one window manager. Maybe someday in the long future when the
WM world stabilizes sufficiently, this would work but for the
foreseeable future this is an unrealistic ideal.
In the meantime, developers are left hanging with putting out apps that
have just way too many windows. I've used Gimp on my OSX box and it
totally sucks having to first clicking the window to get focus before
being able to click the item. If the app ran on a MDI framework, this
would not be necessary.
I have ton's of apps open at one time and if I did not have MDI for
those apps, I'd have too many windows to manage.
Lots of GTK apps (Gaim, Galeon, gedit, and Epiphany, to name a few)
implement a sort of MDI using windows as containers and tabs with
close buttons for documents, but each application has to invent its
own framework for managing them. It'd be really convenient to have
that stuff built into GTK.
If you're interested, I've implemented such a framework in Ruby:
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?MDI
I could try my hand at porting it to C, but I'm not sure if my model
is the right way.
Tim
Sam
winMDI == evil
MDI != evil (potentially)
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