On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Roger Burton West wrote:
>
> Given the usual Windows innovation system, I assume that it had been
> briefly standard on Apple machines a year or so earlier.
No, MDI is something they got from IBM and OS/2 - it started off as the
Common User Access standard. (Other things that
Roger Burton West wrote:
I think the idea is that one might want /etc/$application.conf (file)
and /etc/$application.conf.d/ (directory) on the same system. Still
ugly, as are any file extensions really.
That really isn't helping their case. IMHO, not many things on a Linux
system come uglier
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:06:08AM +, Matthew King wrote:
>Why do people like MDI applications?
Because they first used computers in 199X when MDI was briefly The
Standard Way Of Doing Things On Windows? (Given the usual Windows
innovation system, I assume that it had been briefly standard on
Why do people like MDI applications?
I recently decided to hack on an application I'm using which is in the
early stages of development. It's a Gtk application which uses glade, a
GUI editor thing, to define the windows. I hadn't used glade for years
and when I did its hate was minimal and bearabl
