Re: [Usability] HIG and MDI/SDI/Tabs

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:13, Curtis C. Hovey wrote:

> MDI has traditionally offered a cascaded or tiled view, both of which
> have usability problems since the child windows can appear to be
> top-level windows.  Multi-view must provide a paned mechanism.  Panes
> are poorly labeled in all UI's, users must have the option in the
> gnome-control-center to display window titles/pane labels.  Users must
> be able to select and move a window up, down, right, or left to change
> it's position in relation to the other child windows.

I'm not too sure about this paned stuff.  It's basically trying to
duplicate, to a very poor degree, the WM.  Why not just do things the
way most GNOME apps do MDI now - like GIMP and such?  Users get full WM
control.  Otherwise, we end up with three MDI interfaces (separate
windows, paned window, tabbed window) none of which work the same and
all overlap.

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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.