From kde-core-devel  Mon Mar 12 21:07:39 2001
From: Richard Stevens <mail () richardstevens ! de>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:07:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Duplicated efforts and consistency (SDI/MDI in konq, konsole etc. ...)
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Hi,=20

first of all, sorry for posting into a restricted area ;)


> I think SDI is still the preffered way. Toplevel MDI is broken by desig=
n
> IMO.=20

I really don't understand why many KDE-Developers are agains MDI but I'd =
like=20
to understand. Is there some document covering the reasons for not having=
 MDI=20
in KDE? Maybe somebody remembers, where to look in the mailinglistarchive=
=2E I=20
heard it has been discussed heavily in the past.

> With a more general MDI solution, applications should default to SDI wi=
th
> an configration option to enable MDI mode. That way the application can
> dump a bunch of its menu-entries when running SDI, making it less heavy
> handed and overwhelming for new users.

Can't resist. Most of them will come from Windows and know MDI anyways ;)

Cheers,

Richard

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