On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:53:17PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > I just didn't realize how set in my ways I am. > > > > > > I've tried for X: Kmail, Evolution, Sylpheed, and Mahogany. Something > > > else I can't remember. They all seem fine. > > > > > > Maybe it's a config setting I've missed, but what I miss is having the > > > messages open in their own windows (yet still inside the main Eudora > > > window). The reason is I like to work with my mail as a single unit > > > (single window), but I like to keep a bunch of messages open at the > > > same time that I'm working on. > > > > The window(s) within a containing window paradigm is generally not found > > in X programs. I don't think it's even part of most (any?) toolkits. > > If he's referring to the MS Windows Multiple Document Interface (MDI), > you don't even find that in most Windows programs anymore. Microsoft > promoted it back in the Windows 3.x period, but it is conspicuous by its > absence in the Windows 95+/NT4+ interfaces. Compare the MDI-based > Windows 3.x File Manager with the Windows 95+ Explorer, where you open > separate windows if you want to see two directories at once. >
I'm not entirely familiar with this MDI interface, and my examples are probably built a little outside the standard X toolkits, but what about the tabs in Mozilla, Galeon, & Opera? In Opera they can be tiled or cascaded within the main Opera window. Not sure if Mozilla Mail can do that. but I'm pretty sure Mutt won't! -CraigW
