Toolviews

[Matt Rogers]

On Monday 03 November 2008 08:48:40 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 03.11.08 13:49:45, 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.
>
> +1 from me, I've read all the comments in your blog and I do agree that its
> not exactly obvious what those buttons do.
>
> Another thing which we should try to tackle is getting closer connection
> between a button and the widget it shows (as you say in one of the
> comments), something like a very thing frame around the button+wigdet. 
Not
> sure wether thats doable.
>
> On a side note: I've personally refrained from hacking at sublime too much,
> because even though there's no code to show yet, Alex is doing some 
larger
> refactoring on Sublime's design. Unfortunately as often his time is cut
> short and it might take until december to get this in.
>
> Andreas

From my POV, it doesn't exist until it's in SVN, so it's pointless to talk 
about what might happen based on somebody's limited time.
-- 
Matt