Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 13:22:45 10/07/05
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Hi Gerd On October 07, 2005 at 15:57:23, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On October 07, 2005 at 14:47:37, Tord Romstad wrote: [snip] >>http://developer.apple.com/ue/switch/windows.html >> > >Aha, interesting. So MacOS implicitly use the desktop with it's menubar as a >single frame window. > >I agree with the pixel wasting of an additional application frame. >Otoh i don't like to have hundreds of open document windows on my desktop >without futher hierarchical structures, like projects with java, c++/h and >ressource files. I tend to agree. There are mechanisms to handle a lot of open document windows though, at least under OSX. For example, with a shortcut you can 'hide' a whole application, which basically reduces all open documents of a certain application and all iconified documents to one single icon in the 'OSX-taskbar'. (at the moment, the only visible window is the browser (Firefox, btw :D) - the other 4 applications are all hidden, but can be 'activated' by just one click on the icon) OTOH I also like Eclipse. :D When I'm using Eclipse I typically want to make use of the whole desktop space anyway, (pixel wasting is less of an issue then) and I often want to see more than just the editor window alone. But Eclipse is - as you mention - more than just MDI. The 'windows' automatically line up together and use the available space efficiently. Another approach with multiple windows is when they're 'dockable'. That is, as soon as one window border comes close to the border of another window, they snap together as if gravity glues them together. (not sure if 'snap' is the appropriate term here :) I think GIMP uses this approach. Yet another approach for multiple documents are tabs like in Opera or Firefox. (in Firefox I use one window for reading CCC but open a new tab for each thread I'm interested in. For reading news somewhere at the same time, I have a separate window (with tabs again for articles there)) I think each approach has its own advantages, uses and groupies. :D Sargon
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