Re: Single-window interface [was: a standard for diagram document format]

[Maciej Jaros <egil wp pl>]

On 2008-06-13 16:59 Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
>
>   
> > > But what dia really needs is to leave the old multiwindows (gimp like)
> > > interface which makes it really ugly and nonstandard and make the main
> > > widget embeddable for other tools like Abiword, OOo, IDEs, Visual
> > > programming languages, electronic circuits, etc.
> > >       
> > A single-window interface is part of the next release. As for making it
> > embeddable, is there any up-to-date way to do that in Gnome?
> >     
>
> What? Seriously, a single-window interface? No, please. The
> multi-window way is really convenient ... you can think of each window
> as a different "plate" or "easel" and the main object palette as just
> that ... a palette. Changing diagrams is just simply "alt-tab" handled
> by the window manager, instead of some internal Dia shortcut!
>   
It is convenient until you have 3 other windows and 3 diagrams opened 
and switch between them and wan to select shapes in the mean time... 
Plus there are standard shortcuts for switching inner windows - CTRL+TAB 
/ CTRL+SHIFT+TAB.

Regards,
Nux.