On 11/13/05, Heimdall Midgard <heimdalle at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm just wondering what the opinion of the list is on having Scribus > use docks instead of windows for its tools or "palettes". > > During a recent "job" (I wasn't paid for it), by far the most tedious > part was having to constantly rearrange the windows to let me see the > results of, say, adjusting the dimensions of a frame. > > I could imagine working with dockable palettes that would fold away > when I click on their title bars (or a dedicated arrow button). If I > want to access the palettes again, I just click on the corresponding > "docked" tab.
If you're using Scribus in Gnome, there's a very cool little Gnome trick I discovered last week: you can set Gnome up so that if you double-click on the title bar of a window, it "rolls up" into the title bar - and this works with all apps in Gnome, not just the Gnome-native ones... so it works in Scribus, OOo, the GIMP, and everything. To enable it: System menu --> Preferences --> Windows, then switch "Titlebar Action" from "Maximise" (the default) to "Roll Up". (NB this is all in Gnome 2.12 in Ubuntu 5.10, not sure about other distros/versions of Gnome) To re-open the window, just double-click on the title bar again. It's not quite as good as application-native docking, but it's still a huge help in managing all the windows that some apps need open! Brian.
