Re: Future of MDI in gnome

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I might suggest using a GtkNotebook as a workaround for MDI. A number of
programs do this including XChat and Galeon and I think (as a user) it
works nicely.

Jeff

On Tue, 2001-08-28 at 01:55, Laurent Marzullo wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently developping my first Gnome application: Gargoyle. And I would 
> like
> to use MDI. To do this, I use GTK-- and Gnome--. So when I ask question about
> MDI in the GTK-- list, I've got answer which says that MDI is not well 
> supported
> in Gnome and that MDI support will be perhaps no more supported in the future.
> 
> So to go on developping my Application, I would like to know the Future of MDI
> support in Gnome and if this one will be no more supported, How to replace it ?
> 
> In the case of MDI application will be always supported:
> I would like to add to my application preferences windows, the mdi 
> configuration.
> That's it : The MDI mode (Toplevel, modal, notebook or default) and in the case
> of a notebook application the tab position (GTK_POS_LEFT, GTK_POS_RIGHT, 
> etc...)
> SO, the question is how to set the tab position of a notebook MDI application ?
> 
> Thank you all
> 
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