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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: QextMDI --> kdelibs ? [was: Re: ANNOUNCE: QextMDI-2.0.0 Beta1 out now]
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-07-25 19:14:22
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:06:18PM -0500, David Faure wrote:
> 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...


Basically this should be a setting, as I really hate this interface, I don't 
want to use it ;)

Hmm, maybe if indeed more programs are going to implement this, then this
should be a global setting, so you set your preferred GUI one time only..

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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