Workspace proposal

[Sven Langkamp]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:27 PM, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2012 22:05:48 Sven Langkamp wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have been discussing this on IRC with boemann and ingwa and to clear
>> things up I did write it down.
>>
>> This a proposal for a new UI for our tool docker/box UI. Proposal can
>> be found here: http://depot.tu-dortmund.de/get/r6n9u
>>
>> This is just a thing that I would like to see in Words/Stage. Might
>> even be that I'm too much thinking as a developer there ;)
>> Would be interesting to hear what you think about.
>>
> Thanks a lot - I saw it earlier today so I've had time to think a bit
>
> There are many things about it I like, which is why I asked you to actually
> write it down.
>
> However I think there is a big downside to what you are describing. The user
> can shift tool by double clicking and that means the tool inside a workspace
> will change, and without a toolbox we have a problem

I don't think this is a problem we already can almost handle that.
When you double click onto a shape we go to the shape specific tool
and you leave it by double clicking outside the shape. No toolbox is
needed to change out of or into the tool.

> Also you say the user should be able to create new workspaces, well for that
> to work the user would need to be able to select the tool.

Shouldn't be to hard to fix that e.g. we could show the toolbox and
the user could simply hide it.

> Also the closing and opening of dockers gave us problems in the past. This may
> work for krita where workspaces are much more long lived. In words, stage,
> sheets the user will be changing workspace much more frequently.

More frequently, but not that often. Compared to the alternative of
manually opening and closing dockers it's still much better.

> So I was thinking much of a mix between what we have now and what you
> suggest. Actually just a new "skin" to the current behavior. But a new skin
> that will free up vertical space allowing us to reintroduced the disabled
> tools.
>
> Thinking some more..and thanks again for taking the time to describe it
>
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