Re: [gedit-list] RFE: remove the tab when viewing a single file

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi gmail com>]

Hi John,
	gedit 2.14.x solves the problem you described since when you try to
open a document for the second time, you get a warning asking you if you
really want to open the document. This solution seems to work quite
well, but still needs some improvement, see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324491

Regards,
Paolo

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:28 +1000, John Pye wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> I agree with your thoughts about gedit being an MDI editor. I'm fine
> with that.
> 
> Personally I'm still stuck back with FC4 (gedit 2.10.2), but I do use
> gedit most of the time. My main problem with it is that it's possible in
> the MDI to open the same document more that one. I find this VERY
> unintuitive, and I am often messing up by updating a file on one window,
> and then updating it in the other window and saving, and losing the
> changes that I made in the first window. I'm fine with the MDI but this
> behaviour is not intuitive and I think should be changed.
> 
> I think it's quite possible that you've already attended to this,
> because I think we might have discussed it before.  But I thought I'd
> mention again in this context, just in case.
> 
> Cheers
> JP
> 
> Paolo Maggi wrote:
> 
> >gedit is working very well
> >in this case and I don't see why having a "tab" is breaking the
> >simplicity.
> >
> >  
> >
> >> Advanced users that want MDI for
> >>development purposes can easily change the default.
> >>
> >>Please consider getting rid of the tab in the default
> >>behavior. It would make gedit more generally useful
> >>outside the highly specialized development environment.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Again... why?
> >
> >I'm not saying gedit is perfect, gedit _has_ problems. We know some of
> >them and probably we don't know other ones. 
> >But, really, being a MDI editor is not one of its problems.
> >  
> >