> Closing the frame would dock the contained TopComponent "back".
Ah, not a bad idea! I assume dragging an additional tab into the frame
would make tabs appear again.
On 5/9/18, 6:59 PM, "Emilian Bold" <emilian.b...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
>> That would be nice--but how would one dock the TopComponent again if
>>there is no tab to right-click or drag?
>
>Closing the frame would dock the contained TopComponent "back".
>
>> Personally I don't see a reason to change the way undocked top
>> compoents are displayed. I work with netbeans and so I'm either on a
>> large enough laptop screen (15,4 inch) or a dual head setup. In both
>> cases, the overhead for the tab is neglectable.
>
>This might be a tricky thing to implement.
>
>Still -- the whole purpose of this thread is to get rid of all these
>negligible components that keep eating vertical space and leave our users
>see 10 lines for diffs. The classical 80x25 terminal has better
>ergonomics...
>
>Tangentially, I also speculate users generally have a single undocked
>topcomponent floating which means that title tab is redundant.
>
>--emi
>
>------- Original Message -------
>
>On 5 May 2018 12:42 AM, Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> wrote:
>
>> That would be nice--but how would one dock the TopComponent again if
>>there is no tab to right-click or drag?
>>
>> On MacOS, there's a "Window.style" client property that can be set to
>>"small", like this:
>>
>> rootPane.putClientProperty("Window.style", "small");
>>
>> (See
>>https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2007/tn2196.html#
>>WINDOWS )
>>
>> This makes the title bar take up much less space, and omits the window
>>title, while still allowing the window to be dragged by its frame,
>>maximized, and such. I use it in my own NetBeans app, for a "filter"
>>widget, seen here: https://pasteboard.co/HjFRlqT.png
>>
>> Unfortunately, no equivalent exists on Windows. It would have to be
>>emulated with a custom-painted undecorated window (which would also have
>>to implement drag-to-resize logic).
>>
>> -- Eirik
>>
>> On 5/4/18, 1:34 PM, "Emilian Bold"
>><emilian.bold@protonmail.chmailto:emilian.b...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
>>
>> I think Chris is mentioning that a floating (editor-) topcomponent
>>still has a tab with the topcomponent title, even if it's the single
>>topcomponent. So, what Chris wants is that if you make the Diff
>>topcomponent floating, only the operating system frame has the title /
>>icon and there's no other tab from the Windows System API.
>>
>> I'm actually wondering myself why there is no Windows System flag for
>>this thing... it seems an obvious need for some topcomponens eg.
>>floating palette window.
>>
>> --emi
>>
>> ------- Original Message -------
>>
>> On 4 May 2018 6:39 PM, Matthias Bläsing
>><mblaesing@doppel-helix.eumailto:mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Freitag, den 04.05.2018, 14:42 +0000 schrieb Eirik Bakke:
>>
>> > On the other hand, I think the Diff panel should remain a regular
>> >
>> > TopComponent--those can be undocked, full-screened, moved to different
>> >
>> > monitors, and so on. Making it into a Dialog is a step backwards, in
>>my
>> >
>> > opinion. But the internal layout of the diff panel could certainly be
>> >
>> > rearranged to save some space.
>>
>> I aggree with this assessment. Modifying the diff view to be a dialog
>>
>> would be a step backwards.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
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