dia folk are working on a feature that allows either the gimp style (SDI) or the windows style (MDI). Don't know when it will be released. Gimp is available via the "gimpshop" fork as an MDI application. Does this help?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com">sayamindu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Jim Gettys <<a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org">jg@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> There are ways we can implement different behavior for different<br>
>> windows (for example the maximus approach could be extended to do so).<br>
>> The problem is, how do we know which windows should be displayed<br>
>> fullscreen (say the firefox or the gedit one) and which not (the<br>
>> gimp)? afaik there is no window hint which could help us there...<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Also note that Metacity is reputed to be a decent code base to work in;<br>
> a simple modification isn't unreasonable....<br>
> - Jim<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Metacity seems to have pretty legible code - my hack to make it show<br>
all windows in maximized + undecorated mode took only around a few<br>
lines of code changes<br>
(<a href="http://dev.laptop.org/%7Esayamindu/sugar_metacity/patches/metacity_sugarify.patch" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar_metacity/patches/metacity_sugarify.patch</a>).<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Sayamindu<br>
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