From kde-core-devel  Wed Jul 25 17:06:18 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:06:18 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: QextMDI --> kdelibs ? [was: Re: ANNOUNCE: QextMDI-2.0.0 Beta1 out now]
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:08:26AM +0200, F@lk Brettschneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> QextMDI in KDE-2 mode (using KParts::DockMainWindow) is used at least by
> KDevelop-2.0 and KBear.
> 
> For sharing the code I suggest to move kdevelop/kdevelop/widgets/qextmdi
> to kdelibs/kextmdi after the KDE-2.2 release.
> Any opinions?
> 
> Please, don't comment as "We don't need MDI" because QextMDI just
> provides several visualization modes for multi-document application
> architectures like e.g. also TabPage mode and Toplevel mode.

This sounds good to me.
Do you think Konqueror could be ported to this architecture,
to provide the so-much-asked-for tabbed mode that e.g. opera has ?
One of the issues is to still be able to split views as we currently do...

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