On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 03:07, bulia byak wrote:
On the contrary, I would like to eventually see all dialogs dockable, so that users can choose what they want docked and what they want floating. This seems to be how the modern apps behave. I agree that with transiency, floating dialogs are now usable, but docked ones still have two advantages:
Dockability is good. It's just the current way it's implemented -- having special menu items for creating duplicate "docked" versions of non-docked windows is gross, IMO.
I don't think dockability should be any more complicated than dragging the component on of off the window.
For right now, I'm mostly interested in pruning down the interface to the minimum we need. We can work refinements like dockability (implemented in a saner way) later.
It's actually possible that as I keep pruning, I may lose the Sodipodi-era toolbox entirely at present, in which case e.g. the drawing tools might become permanently (for now) docked toolbars.
What do you think?
-mental