Workspace proposal

[Yuë Liu]

What's the difference from Ribbon UI from users' perspective? Except
one is vertical and another is horizontal.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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