Re: Future of MDI in gnome

[Jaka Mocnik <jaka activetools si>]

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.

as of GNOME 2.0, GnomeMDI will go in compat library. It is deprecated, 
so you shouldn't really be using it for new projects.

I have plans to implement a shell for bonobo embeddables and controls. 
it will function similarly to GnomeMDI (similar layout capabilities - 
notebook, toplevel windows, single paned window...), but bonobo will 
be used for all the UI-merging stuff. this will probably find its 
place in the bonobo-extra module and not in the core libraries for the 
time being.

regards, 


	jaKa

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