Re: window-in-window MDI

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ariman ee>]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Renaud wrote:

> But there's one thing lacking for me in current gnome
> mdi implementation : you can't have 2
> documents side by side without having 2 seperate
> windows (like in top-level mdi mode).
> 
> Most of the time you don't need to have 2 documents
> side by side, but there are times where it's the most
> practical way to drag and drop things from one doc to
>  the other doc.
> 
> Actually, I need that feature for the project I'm
> working on with a friend, a bookmarks organizer,
> and am planning to have 2 notebook-style mdi
> side by side inside the application. We don't know
> yet how we'll implement that, but that's what we
> have in mind :-)

Paned view should be better representation for side-by-side documents than
notebooks.

L.