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SoC Q: SDI vs MDI?

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SoC Q: SDI vs MDI? Michael J. Hammel 23 May 00:36
  SoC Q: SDI vs MDI? Michael Schumacher 23 May 00:51
   Proposed Gimp functionality board ML. Campbell Barton 23 May 03:16
   SoC Q: SDI vs MDI? Alan Horkan 23 May 16:38
Michael J. Hammel
2006-05-23 00:36:30 UTC (over 18 years ago)

SoC Q: SDI vs MDI?

Is the SoC page correct where it asks for an "SDI manager widget"? Wouldn't that be an "MDI manager widget"?

MDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface SDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_document_interface

Or does the Wikipedia have it backwards?

Michael Schumacher
2006-05-23 00:51:56 UTC (over 18 years ago)

SoC Q: SDI vs MDI?

Michael J. Hammel wrote:

Is the SoC page correct where it asks for an "SDI manager widget"? Wouldn't that be an "MDI manager widget"?

AFAIK this is mixed. The project wasn't taken, btw.

MDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface SDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_document_interface

Or does the Wikipedia have it backwards?

I don't think so.

HTH,
Michael

Campbell Barton
2006-05-23 03:16:30 UTC (over 18 years ago)

Proposed Gimp functionality board ML.

Hi All, could the gimp dev mailing list be seperated into 2 lists? "gimp dev"- where actual develpment is discussed by developers. and "gimp funboard" - where people discuss functionality, interface design etc.

We do this at Blender3D and it works well, from reading over the gimp dev's lists it seems that you could do with a separate list for interface and functionality discussion.

- Cam

Alan Horkan
2006-05-23 16:38:29 UTC (over 18 years ago)

SoC Q: SDI vs MDI?

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:51:56 +0200 From: Michael Schumacher
To: GIMP Developer
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] SoC Q: SDI vs MDI?

Michael J. Hammel wrote:

Is the SoC page correct where it asks for an "SDI manager widget"? Wouldn't that be an "MDI manager widget"?

AFAIK this is mixed. The project wasn't taken, btw.

MDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface SDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_document_interface

Or does the Wikipedia have it backwards?

I don't think so.

GIMP has what I would describe as CSDI, Controlled Single Document interface. The toolbox acts as a control window but each document has a signle window of its own. (Photoshop on the Mac would also be CSDI but the menubar acts at the control window. I've seen other programs which have a seperate menubar as the control window, including a version of Mathematica and various IDE.

Inkscape has what I would call straight SDI.

I dont think Wikipedia is entirely clear without necessarily being inaccurate, it just needs more information.