OW: Seperate windows, multiple document views ?

[Gregor Hoffleit]

Peter_Lipps at NeXT.COM (Peter Lipps) wrote:
>From: spagiola at FRI-nxt-Pagiola.Stanford.EDU (Stefano Pagiola)

>>A UI suggestion: perhaps it might be better to have separate windows for 

>>History, Browser, and Documents.  That would let users arrange them at will 

>>on the screen, according to their whims. It would also allow for the option 

>>of having each document accessed through the Web opened as a separate window, 

>>as in original CERN WWW browser. I find this more intuitive than having each 

>>new document replace the previous one.
>
>Not agreed! I like it the way it is and I hate the way  the CERN WWW frontend 

>does it. It would be nice if one could save a document to the local file 

>system in various formats, though.

Exactly. While it looks quite handy at first, it gives you this OS/2 feeling  
after browsing around: A lot of windows spread around your screen, most of them  
you don't want to revisit any more.

A suggestion: IMHO it would be handier to have a new window be opened on demand  
(as in the Workspace when you Alt-double-click on a folder). Or did I miss  
something ?

>Suggestion:	
>Make it three windows that initially stay together and can be torn apart. Make 

>it a preference.

Yes. Have a look at Harald Schlangmann's TeXmenu, for example. On the other  
hand, one could think about multiple Document windows and the browser as kind  
of 'Inspector' for the currently selected document view (compare BeakerBoy  
e.g.). But I don't know if this is useful.

	Gregor

PS: All in all, it looks excellent!!! No more crying.

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