Re: window-in-window MDI

[Chris Jones <chris black-sun co uk>]

Hi

Tom Gilbert <gilbertt@btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> It is accepted that it's bad UI, so why let apps use it? 

There's an important point here - you're letting *users* use it, not apps.
If they want to use it i don't think a bunch of HCI people should stop them.
You can't reject it based on the fact that an app could override the user's
settings - it can do that for just about every option GTK has.

> industry is moving away from it. Why are we moving *towards* it? 

Why not compromise? Put it in and then in gnomecc where it can be chosen put
a warning that says GNOME does not recommend it's use as it is provided for
"style compatibility" only.
  
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