Quoting Vesa <[email protected]>:
> 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.

Sounds worth a shot, at least for the piano/b&b editors. Not that I'm  
too fond of stuff jumping around under the pointer causing misclicks,  
but I'm assuming this would be an optional feature, or at least  
tweakable?


> On 06/25/2014 12:37 PM, Raine M. Ekman wrote:
>> 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...

Oh yeah, the scope. Let's just drop it. Wasting space on eyecandy... :)

More seriously: I just threw those buttons in as examples of duplicate  
functionality that would be easy to hide "permanently". And it's not  
like you click "new" often enough that it needs a button of its own.  
(Or maybe it's just my workflow that's a bit odd?).


> 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.

I agree, no point in adding show/hide before that then. I assume it's  
a pretty complete rebuild, from what I've seen of the "toolbar" code?

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