On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:26, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
One nice interface improvement you could make for inkspace would be to crap the csdi interface in favor of a sdi interface in which toolboxes and pallettes are shared in between windows. There is a gnome HIG bug in which both seth and greg merchan have agreed that csdi should be removed from the HIG http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116599.
Just a suggestion.
dave
Thanks. Would you mind elaborating a bit on this? There had been some brief discussion about HIG earlier and we decided that we'd like to have Inkscape support it more firmly but didn't really dig into what that decision would mean. It sounds like this request falls well in line with that, but could you explain what CSDI is?
CSDI is the GIMP-style UI where the toolbox window is the 'master' window with a menu, and the document windows are subordinate to it. Sort of a halfway between MDI (where all the document windows are contained by the 'master' window), and SDI, where each document window is self-sufficient.
I am personally strongly in favor of a switch to SDI, with a shared set of palettes.
-mental