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
> 
> 
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