Re: Better MDI idea...(Was: Re: gnome-terminal idea)

[Tim Moore <tmoore tembel org>]

Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> 
> David Jeske wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 07:10:01PM -0400, Evan Lawrence wrote:
> > > Gnome MDI does support using multiple windows (netscape style) instead of
> > > the notebook tabs if you prefer - I think keeping the support for notebook
> > > tabs is required though, since not everyone has support for the higher
> > > screen resolutions that allow you to do that, or just choose not to use
> > > them for whatever their reason..
> >
> > I'm much happier when my apps use separate address spaces for each
> > 'document' ala xterm. That way when a rogue bug takes the app down it
> > dosn't take down my other documents. As soon as Mozilla is relatively
> > stable this'll be the first change I make to it.
> >
> 
> The applications can run in a seperate
> address space if we use CORBA and gtk_plug.

Excuse me if I just don't understand CORBA and whatnot, but if one
process crashes, the other process would still be running but its window
will have gone away, right? How can we get around that?

Tim