W dniu 6 lipca 2011 01:48 użytkownik Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> napisał:

> While I'm not a huge fan of multiple windows like that, I see where it's
> useful, and typically that's where someone will just open another view of
> the same document.

Opening the same file two times is perfectly OK and there are valid
use cases for this. What's not OK is propagating changes between those
two "views", which appears to be the intention of the separation
between "documents" and "windows" and Jon's implicit suggestion that
one document (in the sense of SP tree, not a file) can be edited in
more than one window.

I agree that opening the same file two times is indeed something that there are valid use cases for. However, the multiple views alternative workflow is also a valid (and widely used) feature. Illustrator does it, GIMP does it, various office/productivity suites do it, etc. It's not uncommon at all.

One use-case scenario is with a dual monitor setup, on Monitor A I can be zoomed in and working on details, while on Monitor B I have the zoomed out view of the full document, so I can see how it looks overall while working on it without fiddling between zoom levels. In "Productivity" apps, such as Word, you can have different pages of the same document pulled up in different windows and make changes in either view and it's only still editing the one copy of the document.

I hope someone understands what I'm talking about. It's not about
opening the same file two times, which is OK, it is about something
like synchronizing the view of this file in those two windows, and I
think it's very bad. At the moment Inkscape does not do the latter,
but there are some code structures intended to allow it.

I hope my explanation above helps to show the reason why synchronizing between views can be useful.

Cheers,
Josh