Moving QExtMDI to kdelibs

Daniel Stone dstone at kde.org
Wed May 14 01:45:23 BST 2003


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:07:25AM +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> I agree that MDI as in Konsole and Konqueror is useful and improves 
> these applications, but these are fine-tuned implmentations for this 
> specific applications. Something like the "windows-in-windows" approach 
> known from Windows (or as in Qt designer) is a nightmare, because it 
> just adds restrictions and side-effects without any gain.

I couldn't use KDevelop without its tabbed mode; it just becomes an
editor with a handy shortcut to compile stuff, without it. Just use your
head, guys. There's no need to force sanity upon people; if we don't
trust their judgement enough to know when and when not to use MDI, why
are we giving them access?

-- 
Daniel Stone 	     <daniel at raging.dropbear.id.au>             <dstone at kde.org>
KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20030514/6400c38a/attachment.sig>


More information about the kde-core-devel mailing list