Am Montag, 12. M=E4rz 2001 21:52 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Monday 12 March 2001 11:19, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > Obviously having a widget or at least a consistent mechanism which of=
fers
> > to switch between:
> >
> > - SDI
> > - toplevel MDI
> > - tabbed MDI
> > - Emacsstyle MDI
>
> I think SDI is still the preffered way. Toplevel MDI is broken by desig=
n
> IMO. Certain applications may benefit from tabbed or emacsstyle MDI tho=
ugh.
> I guess you could add some support for tabbed and emacsstyle MDI.
>
> Such an MDI solution should also provide some menu support then.
>
> One of the things that I don't like about MDI is that you need a whole
> bunch of menu-actions for managing your windows. Look how many stuff
> konqueror has for this.
>
> 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.
Exactly right, there should be a lib, call it kdemdi or so.... with which=
 the=20
developer can minimize the programming efforts and the user have the choi=
ce=20
between MDI tabs, MDI emacs style or SDI windows. That wouldn't break KDE=
 SDI=20
style and help users migrating from Windows (where MDI is very popular) o=
r=20
only users who like MDI or SDI.

Look at Gnome MDI (it isn't nice, but something like that, where you have=
 a=20
global control in kontrol center over the behaviour of the apps (tab,=20
splitter, SDI) and each app can have its own preferences).

If you create such a lib, I would enjoy it to use it in Kant.

cu and greetings ;)
Christoph

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

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