SDI vs MDI option to settings

[paristo]

 

Is there any decisions to get in the future AP to work like a Multi Document Interface instead the current Single Document Interface so it could be like photoshop on old Mac OS X (panther/jaguar etc)? 

 

As back when System OS and Windows 98 etc existed, we didn't have the 3D accelerated desktops and fancy effects etc. What we had was just a simple and stupid 2D CPU heavy toolkits and it was difficult to handle really. 

 

Then became this idea to go again back to SDI design where every content needs to be inside a single main window. And this is now the thing how even Adobe pushes their view.

 

But we didn't have this: 

 

 

 

And since then when Windows Vista got out, Microsoft tried to release something similar but in fancy way: 

 

 

 

And you can see it just didn't work, was nothing for the feature rich and the userfriendly. 

But quick stepping to modern time and we have Windows 10 that has the Exposé effect! FINALLY!

 

We can now Win+Tab to get all windows presented at once on windows too (after OS X, KDE, GNOME etc)! And it makes so easy to find all windows and swap between them.

 

Affinity Photo allows us to get toolbars etc undocked (or docks undocked?) but the main toolbar stays in main window, and we need to drag every document tab from that main window to separate it.

And when we create/open new document, it is by default binded back to the main window, even when every other document is separated!

 

Affinity photo works with Windows 10 feature well, when you view all windows, the toolbars are hidden and only document windows as the main window are presented.

 

So how about adding a feature that makes every new/opened document to become Individual document windows when ticking a option in a settings?

 

We can have a main window to have the toolbar (as Windows doesn't have the universal dock above like OS X) but dragging the documents from it is just tiring! Especially when we can resize the mainwindow to small one in 4K big screens (so it doesn't take whole screen and we don't need to move mouse across the display all the time) but then every document is by default zoomed to tiny thumbnail and requires zooming and resizing when unbinding from main window!

 

80-90% of the functionality is right there, just needs the polishing on Windows!