Re: A try at GNOME MDI

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> I am not sure if I would club MDI with monsterasities such as lack of
> virtual windows. MDI has one advantage: all the related windows stay
> together. When I run Gimp, I occasionally wish I had MDI. [May be
> virtual desktops give similar power to the user, not to the
> application].

I am told that there is a special flag in X (and supported in Gtk)
that should deal with this, you just need to use GTK_WINDOW_DIALOG
flag for any window that you want to keep together with your main
toplevel.  Window managers should honor this flag and
iconize/deiconize them together.

Miguel.