Re: [Usability] Re: your mail

[Marek Peteraj <marpet naex sk>]

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 11:46, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:00:04AM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > 
> > If CSDI is the way to go then what makes the toolbox the right way to do
> > it?  Why not have a seperate window containing a menubar as the top level
> > control window? (which is what Mathematica does).
> 
> The toolbox is needed most of the time. 

And this is what makes it the control window in CSDI environments where
there's no parent window like in WiW. Mathematica is a typical WiW
environment(just like photoshop and numerous other win32 apps, including
ms word)  according to this flash presentation:

 http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/benefits/

> It also contains the main menu.

Note that you can have the main menu in each document in the newest
versions of Gimp.


> Having a control window with just a menu would only make for an additional 
> window, wasting space with an extra titlebar and adding to the window  
> management headache.

It's also not possible if the window isn't a purely parent window the
purpose of which is _only_ to contain and manage(enforce a certain
behavior on) the other, child windows.

Marek