Re: Side-by-side documents

[Renaud <renaud_chaillat netcourrier com>]

This paned mdi reminds me of Blender, and actually it might prove to
be quite good :-)
Really worth a trial imho !

Lauris Kaplinski a écrit :

> For me ideal paned MDI would allow:
> - divide viewport arbitrarily between documents

>
> +-----+---+  +----+-----+ +--+----+---+
> |     |   |  |    |     | |  |    |   |  etc.
> |     |   |  +----+     | |  +----+   |
> +-----+---+  +----------+ +-----------+
>
> Traditional    Corner        Side
>    paned      attached     attached
>
> - handles for stretching, moving, raising, lowering, maximizing,
> minimizing views (views - not windows - and the BIGGEST MISTAKE would be
> to make handles look like WM controls - they are separate things)
> - handles for dragging views from/to main window
>
> In my imaginations handles should look like notebook tabs, with some
> additional controls. Also views should be reasonably sticky and attach
> themselves to window borders/each other.
>