Toolviews

[Vladimir Prus]

On Monday 03 November 2008 17:50:33 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 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.

I am wary of this plan. The current sublime code might be a little bit over-engineered,
but it also works and we know in what way it does not work. Something brand new appearing
in SVN without any review of design, in december, sounds just scary.

- Volodya