Re: MDI on X11

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich troll no>]

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > MDI, while probably a bad choice for a wordprocessor, makes perfect sense for
> > certain kind of applications: IDEs and the GIMP comes to my mind. Just the fact
> > that it wasn't possible to do it on X properly while Microsoft used it doesn't
> > mean it's a totally wrong concept.
> 
> I definetly like more the multiple-windows on the screen approach.
> 
> Miguel.

Are we supposed to discuss personal GUI design preferences here or an extended
WM protocol? 

Matthias