Toolviews

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 03.11.08 08:30:28, Matt Rogers wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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. 

Just a quick note (as in my response to David): Alexander is currently
working on a partial re-design of Sublime to unify some concepts and make
it more useful for us. IIRC he's planning to have it ready at the start of
december and then obviously needs some help porting the existing plugins to
it.

Andreas

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