On Monday 14 November 2005 07:34, Brian Burger wrote: > 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!
Its not a Gnome only feature. We would like some dock mechanism, we just havent found a nice one yet. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051114/393bd84f/attachment.pgp
