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If a window manager does not support dealing with multitudes of applications with multiple windows, then the window manager does something wrong.

> Imagine 20+ browsers, inspectors, playgrounds opened, all mixed with your regular browsers, mail, any kind of applications and you will understand why we prefer to keep the MDI.

I simply hide these other applications - actually I use auto-hiding after some time period. No need for an MDI.

Let's look. My Mac now has 11 apps open: mail, calendar, contacts, browser, previewer, notes, two Lisp systems, several terminals, a finder, twitter, ...

Both Lisp systems use native windows, menus, buttons, dialogs, text fields, ... each Lisp editor is a separate window, ...



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