On 9/6/07, Gustav Broberg <broberg@...370...> wrote:
Well, you can expand them by dragging the current one up or down and drop it on the group.
Yes, now I see it, but I first perceived than as some sort of iconified dialogs, and expected the buttons to expand when I click them.
More problems: besides F8, it seems to also steal F6. Please give those keys back! :)
Don't blame me, blame GTK! :)
It turns out that F6 and F8 are captured by any gtk_paned for controlling focus by keyboard. Furthermore they are reserved by HIG for that purpose. See http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input-keyboard.html#standard... (A Gtk::HPaned is used for dividing the canvas and the dock, obviously.)
I remember we had exactly the same problem when Jon added the palette at bottom. Jon, can you explain how you fixed it eventually?
I also propose to reconsider the position of the dock. Now it's on the right of the canvas but below the toolbars. I think it would make sense to expand it upwards so it would be on the right of all the toolbars and the menu bar, shortening them. The right end of the menu bar is always wasted anyway; as for the toolbars, all of them are now squeezable without any loss of functionality (a drop-down replaces those items that didn't fit). Similarly, I think the dock should be on the right of the palette at bottom - but still on top of the statusbar as now, because it's difficult to read statusbar messages when statusbar becomes too short. All this should give the dock a lot more vertical space which is valuable.
Hmm, perhaps. I actually had it like that in the beginning, but I thought it looked kind of strange, so I changed it... But, I'll consider it.
If there will be those who prever wide toolbars and small dock, you can do this another user option :)
The next problem with docked windos is: keyboard focus. Before, when I press Ctrl+Shift+F, not only the dialog shows up but it also get focus, and I can at once navigate it with keys without even touching the mouse. Some of the dialogs, notably fill&stroke and export, were even optimized for this, with hot keys (underlined letters) for most widgets. Now this does not work unless I explicitly mouseclick in the dialog. Can you move focus to the docked dialog?