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

["Robert Staudinger" <robert staudinger gmail com>]

On 5/19/06, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 07:16 +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote:
[...]
> > 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.

Yeah, i also thought about that recently and therefore initiated a
gtk-only/win32 port of gdl,  the docking library used by the Anjuta
IDE. ("gdl-gtk" branch of module "gdl" in gnome cvs). Johannes from
the anjuta team did most of the work.

> I'll see if I get time to ponder
> outstanding patches this weekend.

Much appreciated,
Rob