hi, i think it'll not be as simple as that. darkroom mode assumes that the panels are where they are and you don't have to travel for kilometers with your mouse to find a control widget.
also lighttable mode would potentially mess with the image selection which may have weird side effects in darkroom mode. not to mention that panels would be confused which widgets to show. a much simpler approach might be to run a separate thread in the background that renders the darkroom image in full screen for the second monitor. j. On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Stéphane Gourichon <stephane_darkta...@gourichon.org> wrote: > Le 11/04/2016 08:21, HaJo Schatz a écrit : > > Thank you all for your replies! A 15" laptop it is then with a larger > external monitor. Now I'm only keeping my fingers crossed for dt to support > both monitors (UI on one, photo on other) one day. But no big deal, I just > get a larger monitor for the additionally required screen estate :) > > Hajo > > > Aha, it looks like I'm not the only one to have this exact idea. > > Also looks like: > > Le 11/04/2016 01:52, darkta...@911networks.com a écrit : > > Yes, I can drag it to one, but then it stays on that monitor. What I'd love > to do is to have the lightable on the left monitor and the darkroom on the > right. > > > Let me make it more explicit: > > # Situation > > Often I observed that there is a trade-off between space eaten by toolbars > (especially in darkroom) and convenience. > > # Idea > > IMHO dual screen allows to get the best of both worlds: > > * one monitor shows the lighttable and all toolbars at all times > * the other monitor shows the only photo being edited when in darkroom mode, > fullscreen, no toolbar, no border > > # Benefit > > Dedicating the first monitor to all non-photo stuff makes available the > *full resolution* of the second monitor to be used for the photo. The user > would have to move the pointer often between the two screens, but experience > working with two screens for other stuff has already proven IMHO that it's > not a problem. > > # PoC implementation > > A proof-of-concept might even be as easy to implement as " have the darkroom > image widget in its own top-level window, instead of the center of the > darktable window". > > The user can then just drag this window to their preferred monitor and > voilà. > > What do you think? > > > > -- > Stéphane Gourichon > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
