Re: MDI vs. SDI

Tommi Komulainen wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 15:14, Erwin Mascher [Gentics Net.Solutions]
>wrote:
>  
>
>>>Judging from the description the suggested behavior sounds somewhat
>>>inconsistent even internally. However, the reason we aren't accepting
>>>this patch is that we *want* the window to close when the last tab
>>>closes.  The server mode is there to reduce the time it takes to restart
>>>Galeon.
>>>
>>>IIRC your reasons for not wanting to close the window at all were quite
>>>unique, and this patch would be doing us more harm than it's worth.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Well, it's the default behaviour in Opera's MDI (and every other MDI i 
>>know (as there are: all IDE's available,
>>the well known text-editor Kate and many others) ) - and it would be an 
>>option.
>>    
>>
>
>Fair enough.  The problem comes mainly from the fact that Galeon is not
>purely MDI nor SDI, it's a hybrid, and the current behavior is what
>seems to be the best compromise in that end.
>
>It might be worthwhile to consider if the 'open in tabs' should be
>selecting between MDI and SDI modes (with better wording in the user
>interface, of course) and alter the behavior of Close accordingly.
>
>My first thought is that it would remove the need for 'always show tabs'
>preference; in MDI mode we always show tabs, in SDI mode only when
>there's more than one tab in a window.
>
>Also, in MDI mode Close for the last tab in application (not window like
>in your suggestion) would be closing the tab and opening a blank page,
>but not exiting.
>  
>

sounds really good to me :) i would love to see something like this in 
galeon's future

erwin




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