WM managed MDI (was Re: Three different tab implementations)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Monday February 03, 2003 05:39, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Monday 03 of February 2003 14:16, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> > On Monday February 03, 2003 04:55, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > >  Now it would be perhaps good idea to ask Neil to describe this
> > > KDevelop thing in more detail. I'm affected by knowing the way WM
> > > works, and perhaps also limited by this, so maybe there's a better
> > > way of doing it. It would be good to hear how KDevelop should look
> > > like and work from somebody who doesn't know the internals. So,
> > > Neil? (The Cervisia example isn't that good, it simply starts new
> > > editor for every file - KDevelop needs more than just this).
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> > What would KDevelop need to do to my text editor?  I can't say more
> > unless Iknow what you're looking for.
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>  I suppose the windows for C++ files should be organized in some way. If
> every new window with C++ file will be simply "shown somewhere", then I
> think it's much better to use tabs inside of KDevelop which will place
> it so that it doesn't cover other important windows yet it takes as much
> space as possible. What exactly is the WM way going to buy me if the WM
> does a much worse job at placing the windows, since it won't know how to
> place them correctly (and it won't, as long as there won't be a way how
> the app will tell it)?

I'm sorry, I don't think understand you.  How can a window *not* be "shown 
somewhere?"  Do you want KDevelop-related editors to be restriced to a 
portion of the desktop or something?  Child window MDI without the parent 
window?

Oh, tabs *don't* place windows.  They completely gives up the notion of 
window placement, and destroy the ability to see more than one document 
simultaneously.  So how can that be better than what KWin can do now?

Do you believe that KWin is hopeless for document management?

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I'm using KMail, too.  The escaping of -s is an effect of the GPG 
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