> Why not having two feature list, one on the left as it is actually to switch the left pane, and one on the right to switch le right pane ?
That is not possible with n>2 panes. I like the pin idea as Daniel described. We have to be careful on how to implement the pane pinning though. Two approaches: 1) Prevent a pinned pane from getting the focus, so its feature can't be changed. 2) Allow a pinned pane to get the focus anyway, but don't allow it to change its feature. 2) is the way to go, because with 1) this would happen : * User pins right pane (focus is moved to the left pane) * User keeps djing for a while. * User selects right pane because he wants to change it but forgot that it is pinned (focus keeps on left pane because right pane is pinned) * User selects a fea Outcome: Right pane still displays the pinned feature and left pane changed. User wanted to do exactly the opposite. Also, 2) will work better with the "tree pane follows focus" issue as discussed in the other mail thread. > I know that this does not fullfil my original requirement. It is less smart, end requires some more clicks for some use cases but at least they are there. Remember that we can add a third hiddable pane. You could pin auto-dj there and show/hide it on demand. Would this better accommodate your needs? Another possibility: Panes have tabs. A tab can be created/deleted (much like web browsers). You can then pin a feature to a new tab do you can quickly switch to it in a specific pane. The drawback to this is that tabs somehow duplicate what feature list does. > I have also thought about a right click menu "open in the left pane" but that is hard to discover. This is something useful we want to add. But I agree that it's hard to discover, so we can't rely on it as the only way to solve this issue. > I think we have to rethink this topic again I think we are converging to a good design! :)
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