It's fairly common to allow totally collapsing a paned/split view. GTK+ allows it by default (and so all GTK+ apps which haven't added special code to prevent it), and Qt even has friendlier behaviour where once you get close to fully collapsing it, it snaps shut, making it a little more obvious what the behaviour is. I don't think WinForms or Cocoa prevent users from fully collapsing split views either.
The only slightly odd/confusing part is that Geany doesn't re-expand it when it wants to show something in the collapsed side of the splitter, which for me is a plus, but probably not for everyone. I don't expect it would be highly controversial if someone wanted to make a patch to expand the message window when it needs attention (would be fairly easy to code), but then the question becomes how big to make it, since the previous size was zero, it would have to be some hardcoded size. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1926#issuecomment-415608943
