[Epiphany] Re: Tabs options

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Alan Horkan writes:
> 
> Gnumeric has tabs, only they are at the bottom of the document and
> indicate seperate sheets within the document rather than whole new
> documents.  Same goes for OpenOffice Draw/Present/Calc. 
> 

Its worth noting here that tabs used to show different parts of the same 
documents (ie sheets in a spreadsheet) are not what most of us on the UI 
team consider MDI. These sheets are all part of the same logical document. 
The same could be said for source code viewer that enabled a user to view 
and edit multiple source file from the same code base in one window. 

> The SDI used by Abiword, Gnumeric, OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2000 is
> a distinct inmprovement over the Windows within windows that Microsoft
> Office 97 used. 
> 

amen 

dave