Toolviews

[Matt Rogers]

On Monday 03 November 2008 06:49:45 David Nolden wrote:
> I've got an idea how we could somewhat solve the "hard to read vertical
> text" problem on the dock buttons, and at the same time make the docks 
more
> usable.
>
> What about this: If you hover a dock-button, and that dock is not open yet,
> it should be automatically expanded in non-attached mode(Overlapping the
> editor-area or the currently open dock on that side).
>
> Then the user can see what the docks are by just hovering them, and when 
he
> wants to keep a dock, he'd click it. The dock should be usable, and should
> disappear as soon as the mouse leaves the dock-button/dock area.
>
> Then imo we also would not need that "attach/unattach" button any more.
>
> I think this would improve the usability of our docks.
>
> Greetings, David
>
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I'll add it to my TODO and post a patch. I'm already working in sublime. :) I 
was going to work on animating the showing and hiding of toolviews, but I 
think I'll work this into that same patch as well. 
-- 
Matt