Re: Design of MDI aplication

[Tim Orford <orf planet nl>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:11:33AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
>   If many top level windows can be made to "stick" or dock
>   together with the main menubar and all be iconized as a
>   unit independent of the window manager, then this would
>   go a long way to removing the need for wiw MDI.

so is there *anything* which cannot be done by the window manager?

surely a WM could encapsulate separate windows in another blank
window like xnest or MS-Wiw if required?

we do need a solution to this problem, and it cannot be
done at the application level. Any thoughts appreciated.


regards
-- 
Tim Orford