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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE Standards - Basic - Windows
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-09-22 16:14:58
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Peter Penz wrote:
> Hi Waldo!
> 
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > 
> > Hiya,
> > 
> > I will give some of my views about the new KDE UI Guidelines.
> > I try to stick with one subject per e-mail so you will see some more mails of me :-)
> > 
> > KDE Standards - Basic - Windows
> > =============================
> > 
> > The current style guide, although not clearly, seems to present SDI as the one and
> > only solution. Althoug I'm not a fan of MDI myself, some people are, and support
> > for this might be added for this in KDE in the future. Therefore I think it would be worthwhile
> > to specify a standard for both SDI and MDI. Even though it will be very hard to implement
> > a proper MDI  interface at the moment.
> Shouldn't we wait with that, until MDI is really supported by X-Window?
> I never saw a real implementation of MDI on KDE and I think there will
> never be one, until X supports it (with "real" implementation I don't
> mean a imitation of a MDI like Gimp does).

I think it helps if we have a standard ready which covers both cases. That way we can have
consistent behaviour between MDI / SDI applications. We don't have to implement anything,
just say how it should work. Shouldn't be too hard.

Cheers,
Waldo

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