Linda, Would it be feasible to implement both single and multi-window modes just like GIMP? I'm not sure how GIMP maintains both, but I can clearly see the pros of multi-windows when you have multiple monitors. Maybe, docking panes?
Best, Huidae On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 3:10 PM Denis Ovsienko <de...@ovsienko.info> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 11:51:32 +0200 (CEST) > "L.Kladivova" <l.kladiv...@seznam.cz> wrote: > > > Idea: > > > > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/SingleWindow > > I trust you mean well. Let me provide some input. > > My own GUI arrangement for GRASS work was on two monitors (same size, > same DPI). The first monitor with the two smaller GRASS windows plus > non-GRASS windows of the project was in in horizontal orientation. The > second monitor with the GRASS map display was in vertical orientation > to fit the region of interest. And I was running out of screen space > all the time, so if this was a commercial project, there would be at > least one more monitor to provide more space for the multiple > independent windows. Clearly, for a single window UI it would not make > as much sense. > > One other interesting arrangement is a more or less ordinary monitor to > display some GUI in normal usable size plus another "high DPI" monitor > to display some other GUI that needs to show as many physical pixels at > once as possible. Of course, neither the physical size nor the pixel > count match between the monitors, so when a window spans more than one > monitor it becomes difficult to use. > > Finally, GIMP has been using multiple window UI for many years, and the > users figure the GUI out just fine. > > So a multiple window GUI makes a sound use case and it would be nice > to keep it reasonably accessible. > > -- > Denis Ovsienko > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- Huidae Cho, Ph.D., GISP, /hidɛ t͡ɕo/, 조희대, 曺喜大 GRASS GIS Developer https://idea.isnew.info
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