From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 26 16:05:35 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:05:35 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: QextMDI --> kdelibs ? [was: Re: ANNOUNCE: QextMDI-2.0.0 Beta1 out now]
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On Wednesday 25 July 2001 23:14, gigafalk@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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 ?
> I saw:
> http://www.opera.com/graphics/windows/windows.png

Eek I didn't know opera could do the windows-style MDI :}. Ouch.

> I don't know the tabbed mode of opera but does it looks like this?:
> http://www.geocities.com/gigafalk/tabpagemode.gif

This is what I had in mind (but then again, I never used opera).

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