Re: Better MDI idea...(Was: Re: gnome-terminal idea)

[Evan Lawrence <evan unix worldpath net>]

> > But it seems to me that these advantages can be better conferred by a good
> > window manager. I *far* prefer to have multiple maximized top-levels which
> > I can either alt-tab between or put on different desktops, or put next to
> > each other at half-screen width, depending on my mood.

Gnome MDI does support using multiple windows (netscape style) instead of
the notebook tabs if you prefer - I think keeping the support for notebook
tabs is required though, since not everyone has support for the higher
screen resolutions that allow you to do that, or just choose not to use
them for whatever their reason..

> In this mode, the window manager would let you 'dock' windows together
> into the same physical space, so that the 'tabs' (i.e. if you have not
> seen BeOS, it has window titlebars which are only as wide as the
> title) would line up horizontally next to eachother. If you dragged
> the window, it would move all of the docked together windows.

This sounds like a really good idea, but I'm not sure how easily GNOME
could implement it - from what you've described, it sounds like it'd need
to be controlled by the window manager, which would require yet
another window manager hint - GNOME needs to keep some alternative
(notebook tabs, ATM) for people using window managers that don't support
that added hint (which, AFAIK, none do)