However, MDI is still used (very well I might add) by other applications such as IDE's (KDevelop, Netbeans, Eclipse and even Apples X-Code).
Many have suggested that MDI should be the job of the window manager. This cannot work for the time being since no *nix app should ever be tied into one window manager. Maybe someday in the long future when the WM world stabilizes sufficiently, this would work but for the foreseeable future this is an unrealistic ideal.
In the meantime, developers are left hanging with putting out apps that have just way too many windows. I've used Gimp on my OSX box and it totally sucks having to first clicking the window to get focus before being able to click the item. If the app ran on a MDI framework, this would not be necessary.
I have ton's of apps open at one time and if I did not have MDI for those apps, I'd have too many windows to manage.
Tim
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