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Amazing how MDI is rediscovered every couple of decades.

It becomes popular, then a UX counter-effort declares that it should be the job of the window manager and it dies off for a while.

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I think that windowing systems need to be way more flexible. I want to be able to drag fullscreens, workspaces, windows, tabs, MDI sub-windows, and other types of views from different programs into and out of each other. I think Serenity OS has this with windows and tabs.

Related: You can already do this on any platform that has a window manager.

Nobody can tell me how MDI is a good design... what if I want to show two documents from different apps side by side?

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