Not everyone is comfortable with the so-called docked interface.
usually I prefer non-docked, but the non-docked Lazarus interface
completely sucks (at least on xfce):
- all Lazarus windows have the same icon, so you cannot jump fast with
alt+tab to them
- => it takes forever to find the message window
- pressing ctrl+f8 to get to the next error message, focuses the message
window and you cannot type anymore
- sometime focusing one Lazarus window, brings all Lazarus window to the
front
- if you switch the desktop during the Lazarus startup, half the windows
end up on the wrong one
- more I cannot remember right now
Benito
On 12/04/2012 09:40 AM, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Felipe Ferreira da Silva wrote:
I would like to propose and discuss about a new graphical user
interface for the next major releases. Nowadays, most of the RAD
tools use a docked interface(MonoDevelop, Delphi, VS), and in some
cases they are stylish(like the recent Visual Studio versions). I
think that a better-looking IDE would not just make the programming
task more pleasant, but also could attract more people to Pascal.
I know about the existence of AnchorDocking package for a
docked IDE, but I think that if such feature were built-in, the IDE
could be improved with appropriated features for a docked app - and
since the forms would be still undockable, the user could switch back
to the "Delphi7-like" interface.
My propose is ask if you guys would mind if I work on some
projects with a different interface and made in Lazarus(of course) to
you evaluate. I'm good at create components and customize to give
them a stylish appearance like in the case of VS. But I would like to
know from you guys first.
As long as you can completely undo it, I don't see why not.
Not everyone is comfortable with the so-called docked interface.
Tastes in what is considered a 'modern gui' change every so-and-so years.
It's not because an interface has been around for a while that it is
less good.
I work with Delphi XE, and reverted completely to the D7 look,
including the 'old' component palette. Even my windows 7 has the
'classic' look.
Michael.
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