On 1/26/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
I did a quick mock up of something that's been discussed on and off, and does seem like a reasonable option to me http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SplitPaneUI
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.
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.
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