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

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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.

That is something I have never understood, and have failed to find
example use cases: All documentation I found handles this feature in
half a paragraph, leaving it to the user to grasp the possible power
of the two-dimensional concept.

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.

They did that 30 years ago and did pioneering work in this regard,
just to reduce the blame we put on them today.

Greetings
Marc
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