I think remembering the window position might be a good feature to start with. Maybe this could be a general / permanent feature, not only a feature by choice.
/M On 0, "David Nečas (Yeti)" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 09:47:44AM +0200, Mathias Müller wrote: > > is it possible to have the tools selectable (e.g. a menu/config entry) > > to be opened permanently? I often need several tools in parallel, but > > choosing an other one closes the current tool window. > > Reopening it means realigning the window and placing it where it does > > not overlap with data windows. > > There is no way to have more tools active at once without breaking the > tool interface completely (which cannot be done in the stable series). > The active tool ‘owns’ the current channel: it decides what kind of > selections can be made on the data, etc. So this would inevitably lead > to conflicts. > > Having multiple tool windows open permanently but inactive except one > could perhaps work somehow (tools must be able to handle the > no-current-data situation so we would pretend there are no current data > to the inactive tools), but IMO would be rahter confusing. Especially > if you, for instance, have several tool windows open and close the > active one. > > What about just remembering the tool window position? I'm not sure how > that should be enabled/disabled but it might work. Of course, manual > window realignment is probably really necessary if the window manager is > incapable of any kind of smart placement (such as the MS Windows one)... > > Though neither solves the ‘looking at profiles while doing something > else with the data’ case. > > Regards, > > Yeti > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gwyddion-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwyddion-users
