Hi Christoph,
while floating dialogs in Inkscape have their issues (as they sometimes don't know which open Inkscape window they refer to, AFAIU), it's possible to drag the objects dialog out of the dock. Then you can even make it full-screen size (of course, that's rarely needed ;-) ).
When you don't need it anymore, you can minimize it, then it's out of the way. Clicking on the minimized icon will then restore the floating dialog.
Or you minimize all the other docked dialogs - when it's the only one, it can take up all the space.
These are workarounds, of course, for a problematic behaviour of dialogs in the dock that aren't always (but sometimes...) resizable if there's another dialog below them. The behaviour is somewhat erratic. Once I drag on the bottom dialog's resizing handle, the uppermost dialog can be resized to take up 50% of the height (at least that's what happened right now).
Probably too much detail - but in case you ever need a workaround, you can refer to this.
Maren
Am 17.02.2017 um 07:12 schrieb "Christoph Schäfer":
Hi Maren,
Not sure about the tiny objects dialog you get - I can resize, to any size I want, even to fullscreen, if I so desire (but that's tested with 0.92.1pre2 on Linux, so may have been fixed? Or are you on a Mac, and the issue is OS X specific, maybe?)
For the article I tested the Windows version, and the complaint didn't refer the dialogue as such but the tiny object tree window that can't be enlarged to display more elements.
Christoph