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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving QExtMDI to kdelibs
From:       Julian Rockey <linux () jrockey ! com>
Date:       2003-05-15 6:56:39
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On Wednesday 14 May 2003 9:54 pm, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Wednesday May 14, 2003 02:39, F@lk Brettschneider wrote:
<snip>
> > 2.) Do not think QextMDI is equal to Microsoft's MDI approach!!!
> >       QextMDI just supports this mode as one of 4 visualization modes
> > (switchable at runtime) because
<snip>
> So why don't *you* propose a new MDI Policy?  You keep emphasising the MDI
> can work many different ways, which makes me think that QExtMDI would be
> very, very bad for KDE consistency unless some strict guidelines are
> written for its use.
This would be true if the QExtMDI "mode" were decided at compile time. 
However, as Falk states above, it's switchable at *runtime*. There is a 
difference between inconsistency and flexibility.

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