What if we were instead to support the GIMP-esque model for applications, meaning a separate menu/toolbar window and then a window for every document? Granted this could get very sloppy in terms of screen real-estate and determining how to focus and raise various windows based... but would this be an appropriate approximation? -jag On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 12:15, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > Well, the app-centric model works particularly well on the Mac because > there is total decoupling between the windows and the app itself, which > is conceptually represented by the icon in the dock and the changing > menubar on the top, indicating which app is active at any given time. > > In that kind of setup, it makes sense that closing all the windows > doesn't close the app as well, because an app doesn't necessarily need > to have windows at all. I agree it is not essential, but it makes sense > that you dont' have to restart the app if e.g. you are done reading a > document and want to open a different one (close document window, select > file -> open...). > > On the other hand, it's hard to imitate this strictly app-centric model > in GNOME because we don't have the dock, and also the menubar is > embedded in the windows, which makes decoupling the app from its windows > difficult. For example, you can't handle the case where the app is > running but it has no windows. > > I do like the Mac way better though... > > -- Ettore -- --------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Adam Ginsberg Cellphone: 970.749.8530 Rice University '02 Email: joshg myrealbox com St. Mark's School of Texas '98 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin ---------------------------------------------------------
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