On 3/26/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
However, I foresee one problem. Currently all of our dialogs are built around the "one dialog serves all open windows" concept. Making them dock to the editing window seems to switch them to the "each window has its own dialog" paradigm. This therefore may not be as straightforward, because in each dialog we will also need to find and fix code which (1) assumes there's always only one copy of the dialog and (2) switches its state and display when a new window gets focus, and (3) applies the changes in dialog to the currently active window.
By the way, one way to resolve this issue would be to go even further in UI redesign and abandon separate windows altogether, instead adding tabs to the main interface for open documents. I personally would welcome this, although I'm afraid there are many who are used to the current behavior (e.g. for viewing documents or views of the same document side by side).