On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 03:25:22 -0800 (PST) Reinhard Engel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just stumbled over the possibility to change the layout of the Leo window > by right-clicking on the splitter. Then I played around with some of the > commands of this context menu. I see that I can rearrange the windows very > flexibly. But I'm lost, when I try to understand the commands in the > context menu. Some balloon tips/tooltips would be helpful. Apparently Qt doesn't support tooltips for menu *items* http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/8663 I threw a status tip in for one of the free_layout context menus, but you immediately hit the problem described in the above most - the menu may be covering the status bar, so that's not really an alternative. Adding a "Help on these commands" menu item is possible of course. I'll look at at that. > Just one detail: 'Rotate all' rotates the subwindows by 90 degrees. With a > second 'Rotate all' I would expect another rotation by 90 degrees so that > subwindow that was at the bottom now is at the top. Instead, the original > layout is restored. Hmm, it's really a horizontal / vertical toggle, I guess it could be renamed. > But what's really missing: > 1. A hint *in the UI* (not in the documentation) that this layout > functionality is available at all. (Maybe even a menu 'Layout'). But then we'd have to stop referring to it as the Leo "Easter Egg" :-} Because the actions in the context menu are dependent on the context provided by the users selection of a particular splitter, a main menu menu doens't really make sense. I guess a "Layout" option in the Help menu could be used to point people to it. I think Help needs to be split in to Help and Settings, although the Layout entry could probably reasonably appear in both. > 2. *A command in the context menu to restore the original layout*. Good idea - I just saved the original layout as a layout called "Default" and use that, but that's not much help if you don't do it ahead of time. Cheers -Terry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
