David W. Fenton wrote:
On 8 Jul 2005 at 6:19, Owain Sutton wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
Seems to me the problem is not docking your toolbars, not the lack
of transparency. Why not dock the palettes at the edge of the
screen, as in my Finale in this screenshot?
http://dfenton.com/Toolbars.gif
I only set up that layout to show the transparency option at work -
normally I have all my toolbars floating on a second monitor
I understood you to say that transparency somehow ameliorated
problems associated with wandering toolbars. I'm just pointing out
that there is no problem involved, as toolbars don't have to wander.
OK, I put that screenshot together ad hoc, to save giving you a 300kb
one - here's my usual working layout:
http://www.owainsutton.co.uk/images/trans1.jpg
This means my main (better-quality) monitor is dominated by the main
Finale working area, while the toolbars are on the second monitor. With
this arrangement, having the toolbars translucent (once you know your
way around them!) makes it easy to have other applications running
maximised on that monitor - here it's Thunderbird, but often it'll be
IRC, or Acrobat, or Pagemaker, or whatever. If those toolbars were
opaque, it'd make it more difficult to see the display of those
applications without switching focus.
Obviously, not everyone wants or needs this function - but I find it
very useful!
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