[off-topic]Re: [Usability]Re: Toolbar editor

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley pilot msu edu>]

Arnaud Charlet wrote:

> > It's interesting that you choose an IDE as an example, because I think
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> That's because this is an area I know very well :-)
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> > there's some consensus (well, at least among the usability people I've
> > spoken to, both in GNOME and at Sun) that IDEs are kind of a special
> > case-- they're probably one of the few applications where MDI usually
> > makes more sense than any other window model, for example.
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> Right, and this is why I find it "funny" at best, or "misguided" at worst
> when each time people ask about MDI, then someone on a gtk list answers
> that MDI are "bad". Although this may be true in many cases, it is by
> no means an absolute rules.
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> I believe the MDI widget provided in GtkAda 2.0 is a pretty powerful and
> flexible one, which allows you to have either floating, or tabbed, or top
> level windows, letting the user decided, depending on how they work.
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> If we've designed this widget, that's because our IDE needs it, based on
> user's expectations and requirements.

If you must provide mdi, please stick to tabs. windows inside of windows 
was one of the worst ideas ever.....

dave