Re: window-in-window MDI

[Aidan Cully <aidan kublai com>]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:30:02AM -0300, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
> 
> ># ok, this means that if I and a bunch of guys request whatever stupid 
> ># feature (and people agree that _is_ a stupid feature) to be included 
> ># in gnome libs (let take apart the bloat) it would be included ? 
> ># wow ... 
> 
> >There's degrees of stupidness and relevance. :-) 
> 
> >In my (very) humble opinion, whether a feature should be included or not 
> >should be based on a number of factors: 
> [snip of complicated questions]
> 
> you seem complicated (maybe is why you want wiw mdi)
> 
> simpler questions:
> 
> - is this a good feature ?
> - there are better alternatives ?
> 
> if the reply is 'no', 'yes', well ...

It always seemed to me that WIW MDI existed because MS didn't want a
global menubar, and they still needed a way to have application-global
menus.

Solve the app menubar problem, and WIW MDI should no longer be
necessary.  Though I don't see the harm in allowing it, defaulted to
off possibly.

--aidan