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

[Christoph Cullmann]

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> >  But a flexible universal MDI will require a lib, be it handled by the
> > lib itself or the WM. The lib may allow you to configure it so that
> > you'll get all tabs automatically undocked as toplevel windows even if
> > it implements the MDI all on its own. This one isn't a very good reason
> > why it should be the WM.
>
> Universal MDI require anything not in KMainWindow or KApplication.  If you
> require apps to go and add MDI-specific things, then it will not be
> universal.  Or else SDI-fan developers won't use it.
>
> And also, a universial *optional* MDI must be obeyed by an application
> developer.  If an MDI-fan developer does MDI in his app anyway, then a
> global SDI option won't have any efficacy.
A global SDI option is simply not doable at all, a app is mdi or not, the mdi 
style can be changed, for sure, but MDI stays MDI.

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Christoph Cullmann
KDE Developer, kde.org Co-Maintainer
http://www.babylon2k.de, cullmann at kde.org
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