Re: Gimp Menus.

["Blad, John Erling" <john erling blad aftenposten no>]

> > > despite its awesome complexity, X11
> > > doesn't actually support window-in-window MDI.
> > 
> > That's not true -- an X11 window manager is basically an MDI program.
> > There isn't much special about the "root" window in X. (Which is why
> > there are so many virtual root window managers...)
>
> Well, I've always understood that the reason X11 has been pleasantly
> free from such MDI programs (with the notable exception of things like
> Star Office, Xnest, VMware and WINE in desktop mode) was that it was
> technically infeasible. Perhaps it wasn't so much the fault of X11 as
> the ICCCM or something...

X11 have no support for MDI as I recall but it is simple to add this
on the client side.

There is only one nice feature with MDI and that is a slightly simpler
window management for the user. I would like this improvement *without*
MDI..

John