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

[Christoph Cullmann]

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> > Well, it's not doable if certain MDI developers refuse to accomodate SDI
> > users, that's true.  But I think within KDE we assume that all apps are
> > required to obey the standards, and we can write kdelibs such that
> > non-standard apps require special effort to achieve.
>
>  You simply cannot change project-like MDI apps to SDI. There are several
> documents which belong together, and if you make them completely unrelated,
> you loose functionality (say, for example, editing one file in two views).
> You can make them look like SDI by creating the documents in independent
> windows, but it still will be MDI inside the app.
Yes, second that. MDI apps can be made look "like" SDI apps in some aspects, 
like say in kate that we have one window with the menubar/toolbars/... and 
one window per view (if the users chooses, hmm, how should I call it, 
toplevel mode). That looks mostly like SDI but is still MDI. Same would be 
possible for quanta and is allready possible (or I am wrong ?) via qextmdi 
for kdevelop.

cu
Christoph

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