From kde-core-devel  Sat Feb 01 05:17:36 2003
From: Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 05:17:36 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Three different tab implementations
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On Friday January 31, 2003 08:19, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:12:29AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > OK.  Shall I remove the document interface standards page then (along
> > with fixing the links)?  Doesn't make sense to have standardizing on
> > SDI or MDI if KDE isn't going to have a standard anymore.
> >
> > http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/wind
> >ows.html
>
> remove or update?, i say update.

I'd rather hold off on the change.  When I wrote the above, it was when the 
consensus seemed to support ditching one standard.  But now that my option 
c) seems to have some acceptance, we'll see what happens. :-)

> frankly if kde doesn't support tabbed mdi then
> i'll be gladly switching to gnome 2.2, as will
> hundreds of other users.

Support is a pretty general term.  Would you want that support to come at 
the expense of SDI?

To arbitrarily reverse the option that KDE has had for a long time, in 
order to please some users whom you say have an acceptable alternative, 
doesn't seem right to me.
- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a
state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not allow
them in any public sphere." -- Thurgood Marshall
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