Okay, just about finished WebAgg, but it has raised an interesting
question about layout...
I started working to standardise using the way we do it on ``Gtk3``,
i.e. using a pure vertical layout, adding elements from either the top
or the bottom of the container and setting widgets (i.e. the canvas) as
expandable. In my original version of this MEP I used a boolean to
specify whether to add to the beginning or the end of the window's
layout. ``Tk`` gave me the idea to extend past this and use string
argument of 'top' or 'bottom', no real difference but just to keep it
flexible for the future.
However now I rethink that strategy having converted Qt and now on
WebAgg, perhaps we should conform around a Grid layout, by that I mean
we have the following:
North
----------------------------
| |
E | | W
a | Centre | e
s | | s
t | | t
| |
---------------------------
South
For now we will just use Centre and South (with the canvas in Centre;
and Toolbar/statusbar in South), but it also leaves it open for the
future. If I recode it like this, I would make each 5 positions a box,
with the compass points adding elements from the outside inwards which
keeps the pattern explained above.
What do people think? I don't feel 100% comfortable for limiting
ourselves to just one layout, but I can persuade myself that we have to
decide on something and atm we only have a really adhoc system, so
definitely an improvement, and should anything happen in the future to
make us change our mind we can the workaround of using centre as our new
starting point, or wait for a major release.
Looking forward to getting some feedback on this.
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