GNOME 2: MDI or SDI?

[don Paolo Benvenuto]

El lun, 07-06-2004 a las 04:26, Christian Neumair escribió:
> We've not yet made a decision whether we ought to use MDI or SDI for the
> GNOME 2 port, which is a fundamental decision. In my opinion, we should
> in no way mix them, because that heavily confuses users. We need to open
> accounts in new windows anyway, and opening reports in the same window
> is weird, because it is inconsistent with the rest of GnuCash. Plus,
> notebook tabs occupy space. That's why I propose to use exlusively SDI,
> i.e. accounts, reports and all the other thingies are fired up in new
> windows instead of in new tabs. That would mean removal of the plugin
> page concept. Instead, we have action/task-specific windows.
> Comments, suggestions?

I agree! The notebook tab isn't consistent with the way gnucash manages
things

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Buon Cammino!

don Paolo Benvenuto