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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Docking Property Editors
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> On Jul 25, 2015, at 12:22 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> 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.

To eliminate the dependency issue, I’m for implementing the attribute
editing widgets in this manner.

Any opposed?

Ed