Thanks, Andreas, for giving me hope. I'll look forward to that change in a future version. My problem with the MDI (I never new the name before) is that I generally need to work with multiple windows in each of several different applications. While I agree that it can be done, it's not easy to set things up so I can see a good bit of two or more Scribus documents while simultaneously giving myself access to my browser, an email from a client, and a couple of other windows. What do you do when you need to look at two Scribus documents simultaneously?
Best, John >Jeffrey Silverman-2 wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, John Morris <johnjeff at editide.us> >> wrote: >> > >> Hi All, >>> I'm new to Scribus, but I have been doing DTP since about 1990. I really >>> like the basic layout of Scribus, with one exception. I'm a Mac user and >>> I don't like the whole window-within-a-window thing. Is there any way to >>> revert to normal Mac behavior? >>> I'm using Scribus 1.3.5 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 on a 2.6GHz MacBook Pro with >>> 2GB of RAM and 2.6GB free on the boot drive. >>> >>> Thanks, > >> John >>> > > >> I'm betting the answer is "no" because Scribus works with X-Windows not >> cocoa or whatever Mac's window manger is called. >> > >You loose that bet. Scribus uses the Qt library which is based on Carbon on >OSX (and the latest Qt version might even be based on Cocoa IIRC). > >We will probably drop the multiple documents interface (MDI) for all >platforms in the next Scribus version. >I myself always use a single maximized child window inside the Scribus >window anyway. > >/Andreas
