I took a deeper look at Eclipse and I must say, they found a good, 
intuitive solution for a nice desktop with dragable panels (or "views" ?).

Tom

At 18:02 07.01.02 -0800, you wrote:
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>Behalf Of Michael Kirby wrote:
> > Proposal.
> > -  Take advantage of the white-space that often exists to the
> > right side of the debug
>  > area. Except for those people developing in small-realestate
> > environments there is
>  > a ton of un-used white-space to the right of the display area.
> >
>  > -  Allow for simultaneous display of frame and stack displays
>  > (in particular.  Idealy
>  > we could set up as many "displays" as we wanted stretching
>  > out to the right, but
>  > right now I would be happy with 2 or 3.
> >
>  > -  Possibly allow for a tear-off console (with a checkbox for
>  > keep on top).
>
>Adobe Photoshop's "pallettes" interface consists of a number of tabbed frames
>and windows. You can drag a tabbed frame out of a window and it will create a
>new window. Or, you can drag a tabbed from from one window to another (and if
>the first window has no more tabbed frames, it will go away). And Photoshop
>remembers the positions of all the tabbed frames between invocations of the
>program.
>
>Also, the windows that have the tabbed frames snap to each others' edges when
>they are dragged around, so there is no wasted whitespace between them.
>
>Something similar to this (probably no need to get as complicated as
>Photoshop's implementation) might be nice.
>
>(I probably did a horrible job of explaining Photoshop's interface. You can
>download a demo version to play with it if you want:
><http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/tryreg.html> )
>
>
>
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