Re: [Galeon-devel] Re: gnome-libs 2.0 API

[Jaka Mocnik <jaka activetools si>]

Matt Aubury wrote:

> As a matter of record, we didn't use the GnomeMDI initially because it
> was going to be tricky to port the original code over to it (that's
> not a criticism of GnomeMDI though). We haven't moved over since for
> two reasons:
>
>   1. GnomeMDI expects you to be able to serialize the contents of a window.
>      This isn't (easily) possible with GtkMozEmbed (the mozilla embedding
>      widget).

not really. you only need to be able to serialize each view if you 
want to use MDI's session saving facilities.

>   2. GnomeMDI doesn't allow multiple tabs in multiple windows. This is a
>      pretty key feature (think for instance of doing most of your browsing
>      in a single window but still allowing popups in a new window, or
>      having different sessions on different desktops).

it does. simply drag the page tab out of the main window and up pops a 
new window with the page you dragged in it. now you can drag other 
pages to it.

regards,
	jaKa


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