Subject: Re: Closing a Document
From: Tim LaDuca (mail@timl.org)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 13:45:15 CDT
Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> | Martin Cleaver wrote:
> |
> | > >WordPerfect does it very well. Also check out GEdit and
> | > >gnotepad+ under GNOME for other examples of the MDI.
> | >
> | > Make that "WordPerfect does it FAIRLY well." It would be nice
> | > to use e.g. Ctrl-Tab to switch between those different windows
> | > within the app as e.g. Opera, and many other apps do...
> |
> | Well, FWIW I just noticed my copy of WP for Linux doesn't do MDI either.
>
> MDI works best on Windows, and SDI works best on Linux. Linux user generally
> dislike the Opera MDI interface, while Windows users dislike the SDI interface
> of AbiWord. The ideal solution is to make AbiWord SDI on Linux and MDI on
> Windows, though this may not be as easy as it sounds like ...
>
> --#
> Karl Ove Hufthammer
OK, in light of that, here's what I think is the best solution. The Gnome
integrated version of AbiWord ought to use MDI. Gnome seems to have built-in
support for this, and that seems to me the proper domain for this issue.
/TimL
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