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Re: What's wrong with MDI?
by Carbon on Monday 11/Jun/2001, @00:10

Window-in-window MDI is a pretty flamewar-magnetized issue, mainly because most newbies are confused by it. This is something I can attest to personally, as I've seen time and time again people wondering why, when they minimize their document windows in M$ Orifice, they can't find them on the taskbar to restore them.

Also, it's important to note that MDI does not neccesarialy imply window-in-window. There are other mehods, like the frame splitters you mentioned, also konsole style where you can have several documents, but only view one, and also tabbed style, plus probably many others I've never heard of.

I'd be more inclined to go for an enchanced frame style, where you don't lose any window space for documents, and that still makes it easy to organize frames.

Also, what would really be nice is the kicker taskbar menus that were recently implemented (another article on the Dot talks about this, can someone provide a link?). How about a list of MDI documents in each window displayed on the menu of any MDI app, as well as the system currently in place just for KDE-noncompat or SDI apps?

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