I've been able to get more progress on the dockable stuff, and generic previews.
That's the underlying code that's supporting the color palettes in the main UI. Hopefully we can get things tuned up to improve it to the point were it can be used for many things other than just the color swatches.
I've done a quick mockup of where things might be going:
notice what's down there next to the color swatches.
On 2/28/06, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
I've done a quick mockup of where things might be going: notice what's down there next to the color swatches.
Probably I'm warrying too much, but I see 2 major issues with it.
1. If you have 5+ layers you are doomed to scroll, scroll, scroll... 2. Whenever we get around having blending options, the top part of Layers palette where layer's options usually are located, won't be visible all the time.
Docking to the right (not bottom) edge would eliminate both of them however.
Alexandre
On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 2/28/06, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
I've done a quick mockup of where things might be going: notice what's down there next to the color swatches.
Probably I'm warrying too much, but I see 2 major issues with it.
- If you have 5+ layers you are doomed to scroll, scroll, scroll...
- Whenever we get around having blending options, the top part of
Layers palette where layer's options usually are located, won't be visible all the time.
1. That was just from a screenshot of my Gimp session at the time. :-)
2. If we have something with a header, we can have it set to scroll 'intelligently' and keep the header visible.
Docking to the right (not bottom) edge would eliminate both of them however.
Yes. Docking all over is the end goal.
On 2/28/06, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
That was just from a screenshot of my Gimp session at the time. :-)
If we have something with a header, we can have it set to scroll
'intelligently' and keep the header visible.
I see :)
Docking to the right (not bottom) edge would eliminate both of them however.
Yes. Docking all over is the end goal.
Btw, what do you think about an amarok-like sidebar? Is it possible/reasonable with gtk(mm)?
Alexandre
On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Yes. Docking all over is the end goal.
And free floating and re-sizable as well?
Yes.
The key would be in becoming a subclass of Panel instead of Dialog. Once we've got Panel refined enough to serve all the needs, all the dialogs can get switched to gain all the functionality. It's basically just a continuation of the work others were doing in cleaning up the dialogs. Also that makes things like maintaining the F12 dialog behavior a little easier.
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