Time to update the style guide?

[Rob Kaper]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 06:56:54PM -0400, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> Now, I am *totally* not deriding these applications' interfaces.. in fact, I *love* tabbed UIs.
> I just think that the style guide should properly reflect the reality of KDE development... that
> MDI is quite acceptable with the right implementation.

What's the point of having a style guide when we're going to try out
non-conforming ideas and then adopt the style guide to them? I still
think tabs are for people who can't handle their window manager.

But, since tabs can only be maximized, it's still somewhat SDI to me, you
can have actual overlapping windows inside windows with it, the usual
symptom (and horror) of MDI.

I'd rather describe tabs as enhanced-SDI than setting a precedence that we
can arbitrarily ignore the style guide and then later change it because of
the differences caused by ignoring it.

Rob
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