Re: Does exist a "Muilti windows widget" ???

[Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

There is no such beast in GTK to my knowledge.  And for good reason
too.  It's a usability nightmare.  The only GUI that has it is MS
Windows, and less and less programs use it because it's just so bad from
the user's perspective.  The correct way to implement the functionality
of MDI without the mess of windows within windows is to use the tabbed
document interface, or just separate toplevel windows.

As an example of this, MS Word used to have a MDI interface.  However it
proved to be such a bad design that from Word 2000 on up (to XP
currently), there is *no* MDI interface used.  Instead each document
lives in it's own complete Word window (toplevel).  A very sensible
decision.

Personally, I like the tabbed interface the programs like Galeon,
Kdevelop and others use.

Michael


On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 01:35, lorenzo zampese electrolux it wrote:
> Does exist any widget like "MDI" of MS-Windows, with a toplevel window
> (parent) and attached some windows
> (children) which lie inside the toplevel ?
> 
> Thank you :)
> 
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