On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 07:37, Tim wrote: > Cool! I saw that Code Tek had a hack for this but having a lower level > hack is for sure the way to go. > > Regarding MDI, I still see many apps that are being developed that don't > have MDI support and they really need it. A good example is BBEdit on > Mac. I don't use this app because it's just too hard to manage the > multiple sources I have open at one time to do my coding. Thankfully > X-Code now supports languages that I hack in like JavaScript. > > Hopefully we can see such MDI frameworks coming to the GTK core level or > even on OSX some day. OS X will never have an MDI system because it just doesn't need it (besides it would violate Apple's HIG). Having many application windows open can be a big usability problem. OS X solves this by making Command-tab switch between applications and Command-` switches between windows in the current app. This makes it quite usable. On linux, however, alt-tab just switches between windows. This can be a problem. It would be a difficult problem (because of how X works) to do similar in-app switching on linux. On the other hand, most people I know run apps like the Gimp in it's own virtual desktop. Anyway. Food for thought. Michael > > Thanks for the info. > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list -- Michael L Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
