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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving QExtMDI to kdelibs
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-05-13 14:12:36
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On Dienstag, 13. Mai 2003 15:57, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > We already have these guidelines. From the KDE User Interface Guidelines
> > (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/window
> >s. html):
> >
> > "KDE does not use MDI"
>
> Which doesn't reflect the current situation in kde, lets name konqueror,
> konsole, kate, quanta, kdevelop, .....

But nevertheless is a good guideline...

Usually MDI is a bad idea (the UI Guidelines document lists some reasons why). 
There might be exceptions when it is done in an application-specific way like 
in konsole, but as a general guideline it makes a lot of sense to advise 
against using MDI, I think.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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