Re: window-in-window MDI

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt btinternet com>]

* Jaka Mocnik (jaka.mocnik@kiss.uni-lj.si) wrote:
> time for a little comment.
> 
> Mo McKinlay wrote:
> > Pros
> > ----
> > 
> > - People want it
> I was under that impression too, but now they seem to keep a low profile
> ;)
> 
> > - It's already implemented
> > - It's only an option
> > - control-center will have an option to prevent applications from forcing
> >   it on
> will it?
> 
> > - Removing it won't be overly difficult in future, if needs be
> no, it won't
> 
> one more Pro: choice, choice, choice...
> 
> > Cons
> > ----
> > 
> > - Many people don't like it, and see it as a bad design
> > - It requires WM support in order to function
> no, it doesn't.
> 
> > - It would have to be maintained
> so why not dump the whole libgnomeui. everything in there needs to be
> maintained.
> 
> and let me add one more con: it looks ugly ;)
> 
> it is, however, nice to see such a minor issue spark such a discussion.
> anyway for the
> time being the code stays in. reverting it via CVS is not an option
> since a number of other changes went in with it. if the decision is not
> to include WiW mode, I'll manually remove the related code before the
> API freeze for gnome-libs 2.0. it isn't going to be much work.

Okay, I presume you're gonna go and code support in to all the window
managers now?

Good luck with that.

Tom.
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