On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Andrew Sobala <aes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote : > >It's not supported natively in GTK+. Most people think that MDI is one >of the worst user interface designs ever, and so its lack of support in >GTK+ isn't an issue for most people. > I've never really quite understood what people find so objectionable about it. It allows you to have two documents side-by-side without wasting space on two sets of menus/toolbars/etc. This is useful, for example when reviewing. In my case, though, I've not really got multiple documents but (potentially, at the user's option) several "live" displays of various aspects of a system, possibly in different forms, all of which are quite possibly of interest all at once. MDI seems a natural choice for that - indeed most of the commercial products of this type use it. Often it's not the top level - in one that I've used the MDI parent is but one page of a tab-book within a tab-book. >That said, if you want to use an MDI-style layout, doing a google >search for "GTK MDI" gives http://gtkadi.sourceforge.net as its first >hit. Looks actively maintained, too (last SVN commit 2 hours ago). Interesting - thanks. Though the first screen-shot looks like a collection of re-sizeable panes, while the second is clearly a tab-book. The latter is totally unsuitable for my purposes. The former may be what I resort to, although of the "similar tools" I've used the one taking that approach was by far the ugliest and least usable. -- Rob Pearce http://www.bdt-home.demon.co.uk The contents of this | Windows NT crashed. message are purely | I am the Blue Screen of Death. my opinion. Don't | No one hears your screams. believe a word. | _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
