Re: Infrastructural complexity.

[Chong Yidong]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

> Anway, converting windows to frames in order to tear them off and back
> to windows when docking them back seems hardly feasible to me.  Not to
> think of multiple (un-)wrapping menu- or toolbars somewhere in the
> middle of a frame just because the user decided to resize that frame.
>
> So once we decided that the multi-frames approach is a non-starter we
> should decide that tear-off windows and windows with menu- or toolbars
> are non-starters too.  Can we agree on that?

I see no reason to implement tear-off functionality, extra tool-bars,
etc.  All I care about is to have an infrastructure for grouping
windows, for replacing the advice used in ECB (while being general
enough to be used by other applications, such as gdb-ui).