On Jan 26, 2006, at 8:19 AM, bulia byak wrote:
Personally, I don't like this kind of interface. Looks clunky to me. Your screenshot in particular reminds me (painfully) of the DOS application called Paintbrush, back in the late 80s. It didn't have a zoom tool, instead when you wanted to zoom, it split the window into two panes, one showing 2x zoomed version of the other. This was atrocious.
Well... it depends a lot on the program and how it's been implemented.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-1999/Students/soumya/ assignment1/Image3.jpg http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots/3D-Studio-Max_2.png
3ds max, MS Word, Maya, Blender, MS Excell, Gnumeric, etc. all do it
Much depends on the subject, the workflow and the individual doing it. The latter is probably one of the biggest issues.
That said, If enough people want this, I would not object to you implementing it, _so long as_ F6/F8 keep working for tools when there are no panels.
Seems reasonable.
And we don't even need a "bulia.happy" preference to do that. Just keep it one of the standard workflow use cases. I'm thinking that we probably need to list out some of those more explicitly.