Re: window-in-window MDI
- From: Tom Gilbert <gilbertt btinternet com>
- To: Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay labs interopen org>
- Cc: Derek Simkowiak <dereks kd-dev com>, Chris Jones <chris black-sun co uk>, gnome-devel-list gnome org, recipient list not shown: ;;
- Subject: Re: window-in-window MDI
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 03:10:38 +0000
* Mo McKinlay (mmckinlay@labs.interopen.org) wrote:
>
> # > See how it goes against all that is X and UNIX?
> #
> # Hehehe, I never realized WiW was the end-all be-all of Satan.
> #
> # Funny.
>
> One could argue that a user-friendly GUI that novices can sit down and use
> with little or no previous experience is going against all that is X and
> UNIX, but that's what GNOME, KDE and others are all about.
>
> Not that I'm saying everything to do with X and UNIX should be trashed -
> there wouldn't be a whole lot of point in doing any of this if that was
> the case ;-).
So you go away and patch the windowmanagers, and X.
Then you can implement it *proplerly*, in a consistant and usable
manner.
Until then, please let's not put a dirty hack into gnome-libs.
Jaka: well done, you did a good job on the code, I am not knocking
that. But it doesn't belong. It is a hack and you *must* know that.
Ask the wm-spec list, or any wm author or X maintainer.
Tom.
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