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I'm not so sure multi-windowing is quite dead when it comes to drawing and CAD programs. From a practical perspective, the paradigm of being able to move your palettes around, and pick which ones are displayed, is rather valuable regardless of how big your display is.

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But having to position them manually is just tedium. Let me choose which palettes to display and which side of the window to display them on, and then let the application take care of the rest. If I'm running at fullscreen then I don't want anything covering up the document/image/model. Otherwise, I only want to have to move/resize one window.

This issue is solved fairly easily with a superior window manager.

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Screen-ohmega-tab-gnome...

hm, my xmonad shows gimp with multi windows free floating. wich makes more sense for the current gimp.

By default gimp is floating. It's not hard to change the defaults.

http://nathanhowell.net/2009/03/08/xmonad-and-the-gimp/

I'm curious to what CAD programs you are using that are multi-windowing because the only one I can think of is ADAMS by MSC but that UI is a big pain in the ass.

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