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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Multiple tool dockers
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2008-07-07 17:24:23
Message-ID: 200807071924.23943.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Monday 07 July 2008, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I will tell the reason why I liked the idea. Based on my own experience
> with using a laptop with a small screen (1280x800) and desktop computer
> with a dual screen setup (1920x1200 / 1280x1024). I organize dockers and
> screen space completely differently on those two setups (and everybody I
> have seen, do the same), each time, the goal is to maximize the efficiency,
> on the small screen the dockers are tabbed together, to maximize the canvas
> space. On the big screens, they are untabbed (and if my xorg setup would
> allow it, I would have the work space on the 1920x1200 monitor, and all
> dockers on 1280x1024 untabbed, like I did with photoshop/indesign on
> windows some years ago).

I like the multiple tool dockers idea, too. It fits in with quite a few 
recommendations about ui design, for instance those about closable panels in 
Tidwell's book.

> That said, from IRC discution with Casper and others, and reading the
> relevant part of your emails, it is clear that we *all* have concerns over
> the automagically appearing dockers/tabs. So lets work together on this, on
> defining how it should behave.
>
> If there are bugs, and issue with the code for that features, it goes
> without saying that it needs to be fixed.

I'm not too worried about bugs, unless Casper is pushed to stop his 
involvement in KOffice once again. After all, everything in KOffice has bugs, 
from the initial size of the main window down to the toolbox.



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Boudewijn Rempt 
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