Quoting Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]>:

> with my last comment i am referring ot windows with the various tools kinda
> like photoshop does. no menus except the basic file etc and the rest are
> flotable windows that float and can be dragged and moved around on screen.
>

Some say there already are too many windows. And a lot of buttons are  
specific to the window they hang from. Not sure if it's that good to  
float them around.

How about starting off with hidable toolbars and a "view" menu, to  
hold checkboxes for all toolbars that can be hidden? If/when toolbars  
are later re-engineered into floating windows some way of getting them  
back will be needed anyway...

Let's see...
Main window, top row:
New, new from template, open, open recent, save, export - almost all  
of them duplicated in the menu already, could be made hidable right now.

Second row:
Show/hide window buttons - all have F-something keystrokes, should be  
hidable. And why not even put those buttons in the "view" menu as  
"[checkmark] Song-Editor (F5)" etc.?

Piano roll:
Those window-widening scale and chord dropdowns are good candidates...

And as a bonus, maybe add checkboxes for all UI settings that work  
without a reboot.

I put a patch out some time ago with a start in this direction:
http://sourceforge.net/p/lmms/patches/38/

If this makes sense, I could resurrect that code and make a PR.


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