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On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 20:35 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> There may be a lesson to be learned: Perhaps the ability to rescale 
> and reposition individual docks on the fly does not contribute that 
> much to usability.

Interesting observations. Indeed a few releases of inkscape shipped a
special version of libgdl, maybe linked static?

I myself have never really liked multi-windows applications like Gimp --
docking makes it not really better for me.

I think for GTK a Notebook inside a panned window is generally a good
solution for schematic or pcb editors, because for such tools generally
one single property widget is used (we may edit text or line style or
colors or something other, but generally only one at a time. So
switching the Notebook works well.) For people working with multiple
monitors that may be different -- but I myself prefer having one
application with all its widgets on only one screen in these days, maybe
on one UHD 32" display. If I would use multiple monitors, than maybe one
for schematic, the other for PCB.

(For tools like gimp multiple (docked) property windows makes indeed
more sense, maybe one for line style, one for color, used
interchangeably.)