on Thu, Mar 07, 2002, Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > 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. > > That's what I wondered. > > I'll try the trick of using a separate desktop for my mail. So far, > with multiple windows, it gets cluttered too fast. The > windows-inside-a-window thing was nice in Eudora -- let me have a real > messy email window that could all be moved as a single unit. The solution to this under GNU/Linux is generally some form of window association. This varies by window manager, Sawfish has some fairly complex window grouping capabilities though I'm not familiar with them. Under WindowMaker (my WM), it's possible to work with entire sets of windows associated with a given application. The "hide", "unhide here", and "bring here" functions are particularly useful. In general, I find the MDI paradigm to be frustrating to the extreme, and the alternatives provided by GNU/Linux are far superior (IMVAO). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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