[PyQt] best practices for MDI app

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2010-07-15, Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao wrote:
> as dock widgets can only be placed in a main window, can I make an
> internal main window as central widget of my main application windows
> and then treat dock widgets in the central main window widget as my
> display windows? this central main window doesn't have any central
> widget at all. is this ok?
[snip]

It will probably work but I would consider it to be poor practice.
Personally I'd create a custom QWidget subclass with exactly the desired
behaviour rather than abuse a standard Qt widget:-)

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