On 03/15/2014 12:34 PM, Ankit Shah wrote:
I think doing so would be easy if we can convert it like the normal find and replace window. This would also allow for extra space available to user to view the document.
Note that the dialog can be undocked, at least here on Linux. Just grab and drag. Unfortunately, that does not solve the shortcut problem.
There was some discussion of this a long time back: which things should be docked, which not, etc. There are cross-platform considerations, as well. So I think making this widget a standalone dialog is probably not what most people are going to want to do.
There are a lot of these dockable widgets in LyX, in fact, and similar issues will arise with all of them. So what would be really nice---no, this is not easyfix---would be to figure out if there is some way to get the shortcuts to go first to the dialog where the focus is, and not to the main window. I have no idea if that is possible.
Also another idea we can handle transparency of find and replace window on loose focus. Never tried anything like that in Qt but would love to do that given enough directions.
I'll guess that's more a window manager thing. Richard
