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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: QextMDI -> KDE ?
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date:       1999-11-11 13:27:50
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bo Thorsen [mailto:gobo@imada.sdu.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 1:15 PM
> To: kde-core-devel@kde.org
> Subject: Re: QextMDI -> KDE ?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Falk Brettschneider wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it possible to place QextMDI in the KDE widget classes tree? 
> > So it would be possible that people can use it without 
> making a copy of
> > it in their own project (like currently KDevelop-snapshot does).
> > There is just one rub in it: QextMDI is only permitted to 
> depend on Qt.
> > It has to be portable in the same way as Qt.
> 
> This has been discussed a number of times with the same 
> conclusion: MDI is a windows thing and should therefore not be a part of
kde.

Even more : it's a bad OLD windows thing. Even windows drops it
(I cited Word 2000 earlier on). MDI is very confusing for users. 
Which is why they removed it, and which is why we don't use it either. 
But yes, it can be considered convenient for developers, which is why 
they kept it for Visual Blah tools, and which is why kdevelop uses it.
Although I'm personnally happy with the non-MDI XEmacs :)

--
David Faure
faure@kde.org - KDE developer
david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake
david.faure@cramersystems.com - Cramer Systems

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