Re: gnome-terminal idea

[Dietmar Maurer <dm vlsivie tuwien ac at>]

Evan Lawrence wrote:
> 
> You could of course add this to GnomeMDI if you like, but since as of right now
> no window managers support this, it'd really be better to contact the authors
> of say IceWM or E about implementing this functionality in their WM, and let
> them work out the technical details - Gnome really shouldn't be concerning
> itself with new user interface design that obviously is a window manager issue.
> 
> On 24-Sep-98 Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> >> It's also possible to use MDI-toplevel mode and
> >> start a new process for each toplevel window. This way you can still use
> >> the WM-approach, but Gnome will stay WM-independent.
> >>
> >
> > Just to make it more clear:
> >
> > We can program a new MDI-mode - lets call it MDI-WM. In this mode MDI
> > always creates a new toplevel window, but asks the WM for displaying
> > it in a notebook like style. This combines the best of both approaches.
> >
> >

In the previous discussion some people suggest a WM with this behaviour
- it's
not my idea. I don't think we need it, and all I wanted to say is that
gnome-mdi
is flexibel enough to implement such behaviour.