Re: Towards resolving #76901 - The tools should be dockable

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 07:16 +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The patch available in #340352 [1] lowers the bar for a few others to
> be fixed, among those the ol' docking request. That one has potential
> for controversity, therefore it might be helpful agreeing on a
> solution before putting time into a fix. So here is the reproduction
> of my bugzilla "RFC":
>
>
> Bug  #76901 [2] - The tools should be dockable
>
> I am wondering how to best integrate this with the current CSDI model.
> Assume 3 diagrams are open, the toolbox is docked to the one currently being
> worked on. Now Alt+Tab to another diagram, should the toolbox
>   (1) be re-docked to the one receiving the focus
>   (2) be undocked
>   (3) stay docked to the diagram that loses the focus
>   (4) should multiple instances of the toolbox be allowed in docked mode?
>
>
> To illustrate stuff a bit i reparented toolbox and diagram into a pane widget:
> http://gnome.org/~robsta/tmp/har-har-har.png
> (also includes a standard toolbar patch which i'll submit after the
> [1] patch is in, only like 10 lines anyways).
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340352
> [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76901

Interesting.  I like where this is going.  Of your four choices, I would
pick #1, though think docking various other windows like layers is
higher on my priority list.  I'll see if I get time to ponder
outstanding patches this weekend.

-Lars