> Personally, I don't like MDI applications. I think they just waste
> space that could be better used by other applications. I usually run X
> at a resolution of 1600x1200. If AbiWord was an MDI applicaiton, and I
> wanted to open 2 documents and view them both at 100% zoom but not
> overlapped (side by side, maybe staggered), all that extra space which
> used to be free for other apps (status utilities, xterms, Netscape
> windows, whatever) is now just a background I can't do anything with.
The flipside of this is, of course, that you end up qwith multiple,
possibly incomplete menubars, toolbars, etc.
The (Unix) Wperf way with most of the document-independant stuff (open,
exit, global prefs) in a separate, different window, is probably the most
logical and consistent, but it's also ugly and confusing to non-Unix
people.
Those of us who disable click-to-raise (except on window decorations)
don't have such concerns about MDI.. :)
Matthew.