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On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 07:48:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <106sd13$2kjh7$1@dont-email.me>:

> On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:35:43 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>> There is a deliberate policy in the design of Wayland that
>>> applications shall neither know nor care about the positions of their
>>> windows on the screen, and possibly even their Z-order layering.
>>
>> From [1] it looks like they’ve realized the trouble this superficially
>> rather bizarre policy causes and are walking it back.
> 
> Blender manages this just fine, and I think KiCad can do it in a similar
> way.

So, does Blender manage it using an "MDI" -- that is, everything managed
within one window?

If so:  I thought some folks were trying to stay away from that?

(I like Gimp's single-window interface, personally.)

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