On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Víctor R. Ruiz wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I know some programmers prefer Lazarus IDE the way it is. However,
> on my development environments, with little desktop space, working
> with many windows is not a happy experience. I also read some threads
> on the web forum requesting workspace integration, so I started
> digging in the Lazarus code. Thanks to Mattias' fix to the Notebook
> change of parent, I could get a working version of Lazarus on (almost)
> one window: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1012/1358706622_0ab97e91ef_o.png
I really like it! One of the things I always disliked from Delphi was that it
wasn't SDI (at least not up to v7, and never used the newer ones). Lazarus
made it even worser by showing separately each window it opened in the
taskbar, as if, for example, I could be interested in restoring the object
inspector alone but leave the rest minimized, and also cluttering the taskbar
to the point to make it unusable (unless perhaps you group the icons, wich I
never do, so probably that's only my problem). I ended dedicating a virtual
desktop to Lazarus alone so I never need to minimize it and it doesn't matter
how much it clutters the taskbar... Also it doesn't minimize neither restore
too gracefully, frequently many clicks are necessary to take every window to
the desired state.
Added to that, I never overlap none of the windows of the IDE, so having
windows that can overlap is more of an inconvenience that anything else, and
I end up with a rather messed layout where no window is in the place it was
previously, so I need to hunt them around...
I hope this ends up in SVN!
Uff! That was cathartic...
Thanks!
Mario
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