I did a design up once for something without frames:

http://johnwlong.com/images/rubyred-rdoc-template.png

I even did up the html for it. When I got around to implementing it I 
didn't find the time to actually make it work, but I did get it going in 
the three/four pane view.

If anyone's interested in using the html I'd be happy to hand the 
project off to them.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> Despite the snazzy look of the new default RDoc templates with three 
> panes at the top, I keep coming back to the original flat look of 
> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/builtins.html. There's something deeply 
> usable with having all the modules and methods take up a full screen 
> instead of being cramped into tiny panes at the top. Of course, it could 
> also be, as Dave Thomas suggested, that I'm just "getting old and 
> inflexible".
> 
> Regardless of which, I'd be terribly appreciative if anyone had the 
> insight and energy to make a set of RDoc templates that used this flat 
> format with 1 index and 1 page per module. I'd *really* like to have it 
> for the unveiling of the new Ruby on Rails site, which is coming shortly.
> 
> Even Dave says its not supposed to be that hard: "...if someone wanted 
> to create a new output template and generator, it would be fairly 
> simple: just change the stuff that generates the current top frame to 
> store it all in one file, not three"
> 
> Anyone up for it? :)
> -- 
> David Heinemeier Hansson,
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> http://www.rubyonrails.org/  -- Web-application framework for Ruby
> http://macromates.com/       -- TextMate: Code and markup editor (OS X)
> http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain
> 
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