On 06/25/2014 12:37 PM, Raine M. Ekman wrote: > Some say there already are too many windows. And a lot of buttons are > specific to the window they hang from. Not sure if it's that good to > float them around. > > How about starting off with hidable toolbars and a "view" menu, to > hold checkboxes for all toolbars that can be hidden? If/when toolbars > are later re-engineered into floating windows some way of getting them > back will be needed anyway...
I think a better idea than floating toolbars would be something like an auto-hiding toolbar, which only shows up when you hover over it. We have already so many floating subwindows, that adding more would probably hurt usability more than help. > Let's see... > Main window, top row: > New, new from template, open, open recent, save, export - almost all > of them duplicated in the menu already, could be made hidable right now. I'm also not really sure what the point would be in hiding these. The main toolbar's minimum height is dictated by the largest widget, which is the scope, so hiding/showing the buttons would achieve what exactly? The main toolbar would still be the same size vertically... > Piano roll: > Those window-widening scale and chord dropdowns are good candidates... Here I guess hiding could have some value, as the scale/chord widgets aren't used all that often. However we should maybe wait until we have the overflowing toolbars implemented, or add the show/hide function at the same time, so that we can make sure the features work well together. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
