From kde-core-devel  Mon Mar 12 21:26:39 2001
From: Torsten Rahn <torsten () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:26:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Duplicated efforts and consistency (SDI/MDI in konq, konsole etc. ...)
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> > With a more general MDI solution, applications should default to SDI with
> > 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 ;)

No, I think Waldo is right on this one: SDI is in the most simple case the 
most simple solution usability-wise. Once the user has explored the 
menus and toolbars of an application SDI can be a real hinerance
(depending on the situation). In that situation it would be really nice for 
the advanced user to choose the most effective MDI-solution.
Therefore it makes sense to always have SDI by default.

Greetings,
Tackat
 

> Cheers,
>
> Richard