On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...> wrote:

1. Get rid of "tear-off" functionality completely, and just have fixed

toolboxes... probably the easiest option!

Not a bad option... the whole "well, we'll be able to arrange them one day by mouse" just needs to be redone (and made working from the start), as opposed to the mess we have now.

2. Switch to using GDL and putting all toolboxes into a dockable dialog.

Is it possible to have separate docks for this?

3. "Adopt" the GtkHandleBox code and maintain a fork of it (as we did

with GtkRuler)

Not very favorable imho.

4. Something radical, new and exciting..!?

I'm all for this option if it's compelling!

In any case, this is probably not something we want to do for Inkscape 0.49 because it involves a major reworking of a prominent UI feature!

Yeah, not a 0.49 thing.

Any thoughts?

The only thoughts I have are that this needs to be smarter when re-written. We've had multiple ideas put forth in the past... one possibility is a resizable toolbox (akin to GIMP), another is having similar tool buttons be all available under a "master" button (similar to how AI does it), and I know there are others that have been suggested.

Cheers, Josh