Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2019, 13:30:08 CEST schrieb Simon Budig: [...]
One thing which came up though (and which we already have discussed in
the past IIRC) is the need for a better support for multiple documents
in single window mode. The software they're using currently is using a
classic Windows Multiple Documents Interface (MDI) and they do in fact
make use of it. I tried to explain why I personally consider GIMPs
multiple window interface as quite good, but the not-so-great support
for multiple desktops in windows (and the bad window management) made
this a tough point to sell... :)
I see two options here and I think we've been discussing these in the
past.
a) create multiple side-by-side image views within the single window
mode. We could allow for tiling the image area into multiple
notebooks, each containing its own set of images, allowing for
Drag'n'Drop between them etc. ppp. My gut feeling is that this
should be quite doable. It might be a bit tricky to control the
keyboard focus there and to make it clear to the user, which of the
images will be affected by the next keystroke.
b) (not necessary XOR) it might be feasible to allow for a kind of
hybrid single/multiple window mode, where one can drag out
notebook-tabs into their own image view that then is managed by the window
manager. So we would have one dedicated main window containing the
toolbox and the notebook-area with image views as well as separate
windows containing image views (or a notebook of image views?).
What about this: The tabs in single image mode are not just for one image each but contain "workspaces". By default an image is opened in a new workspace containing a single image, so it's the same we currently have. It would however be possible to split the image area to show more than one image or view. I somewhat like the quick and easy way that's done in blender, however, one would need to think about what to do when the last view of an image is closed. That way each tab could contain a arbitrarily complex setup of image views with the toolboxen staying the same for all of them. Having rip-off windows might be nice, but I personally don't feel the need, and having both a single image window mixed with some floating windows might be confusing. I'm also CC'ing the gui list as that seems to be a better place for this part of the discussion. [...]
Bye,
Simon
Tobias
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