Re: Re: Where is "Explore from here"?

On 6 Feb 2004, at 14:53, David Strupl wrote:
> I don't understand the imperative "must have an item in Window menu". 
> What are you trying to say? Are you trying to somehow enforce that 
> there cannot be more instances of non-document windows?

Exactly.

> Why?

Because it is simpler. There is one central place for opening 
non-document windows.

> I might be stupid but I don't understand while even documents cannot 
> be docked anywhere but you are the expert here. Hope that this will 
> not be enforced since we definitelly don't want it to behave like this 
> in our non-IDE app. Here is my prediction for you: there will be 
> significant number of users saying: why for hell cannot I dock this 
> here? They will not understand your notion of document. You will find 
> out yourself after you hear the compliants. Beleive me - I have heard 
> them already.

The notion of document is the same in most of the IDEs. I think 
everybody would understand that.

So, what are the specific windows you or users you heard from want to 
dock somewhere but it is not possible?

-Jano