with my last comment i am referring ot windows with the various tools kinda
like photoshop does. no menus except the basic file etc and the rest are
flotable windows that float and can be dragged and moved around on screen.


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Tres Finocchiaro <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Jonathan Aquilina <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys I am just thinking here. I am seeing alot of mentions of widgets.
>>
>> Would it be possible to give the users the ability to position menus they
>> way they want where they want?
>>
> Is this in regards to this #880 <https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/880> bug
> report?  If so, I think this topic is already in discussion there.  If you
> are referring to dragable menubars, I vote no since it often adds little or
> no value to the interface and from my experience forces elements to shuffle
> around poorly (For example, Microsoft Office 2003 started allowing this and
> users would accidentally remove critical toolbars or menus with no idea how
> to get them back).  This is also something we went to lengths to prevent on
> Ubuntu, since the global menu bar would force QT to have a draggable
> toolbar causing all sorts of problems.
>
>
>> What are your thoughts of keeping seperate windows for the menus?
>>
> I'm not sure what you mean here.
>
> -Tres
>



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