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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: SDI
From:       Christoph Cullmann <cullmann () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-04-28 16:17:35
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On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:05, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Kate from KDE 3 (compiled from source) in SDI mode and I've
> noticed that there are a few oddities.
>
> Even in SDI mode, there are parts of the application that still behave as
> though it was MDI. Specifically, the Document menu and the File Selector
> will only affect the first "main window" created when changing
> documents/file. For example, say I have two files loaded, foo.txt and
> blah.txt. If I select blah.txt in the File List, it will display it in the
> foo.txt window and I'll have two windows displaying blah.txt. The same goes
> for the Document menu, it only affect the "main window". The problem stems
> from the fact that in SDI mode there is still the concept of a "main
> window". In SDI, all windows are equal ;)
>
> The File Selector window will appear docked inside the current document
> window the first time it is turned on. Selecting a file from that window
> loads the contents into the Untitled window the file selected was docked
> into and opens a new window with the correct title and the contents of the
> file. See http://www.doxxx.net/kate/snapshot1.png.
>
> Is anybody working on improving/fixing SDI mode or should I start digging
> into the code?
Think nobody is working on that at the moment.

>
> Ciao,
> Gordon
>
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Christoph Cullmann
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