Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces (was: Re: Distros specifically designed for children)

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 15:34:29 -0700, John Ames wrote:

MDI is one of several solutions to an inherently clunky and complicated
UX problem: how do you manage a single application with arbitrarily many
documents, in a desktop environment with a bunch of other stuff open as
well?

We already have plenty of solutions to that. Look at the dual concepts of
“virtual desktops” and “activities” in KDE Plasma 6.x, for example. That
allows you to switch between entire suites of document/application windows
in a single operation.

MDI is inherently clunky because Microsoft chose to impose the stupid UI
convention that there must be a top-level “application window” to contain
all the application-specific “document windows”. No other GUI is built
that way.