Hi John, sorry if I've annoyed you. At least we have now a active discussion about it and I know the author of the code which I've changed. ;)
As I understand it, your main reason against 'setMovable(true)' is the the 'tearing off' (comment in the code) or the 'popping out'. But this is not possible also not with my change. With 'setMovable(true)' it is only possible to move the toolbars in one of the 4 window sides. There are the QDockWidgets which have a floating property, but the toolbars don't have this 'feature'. Because of this I haven't seen a reason not to enable 'movable'. Peter John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:00:21PM +0000, José Matos wrote: > >>> That it just happened without discussion of whether it makes sense, >>> unlike when I disabled it, when I actually asked people? >> John time passes and my memory is not improving. :-) >> >> Do you remember the arguments at that time? > > Besides us not having any support for remembering it in a session, it's > far too easy to pop out toolbars. I've also never understood why it's > preferable to have toolbars that occlude other windows (and indeed UI > design experts agree...). We do not have toolbars of an unusual size > (though as someone's already pointed out, we do have ones that require > being the shape they are by default.) > > Two final notes: Firefox removed its 'grippies', and when I disabled > them in LyX, we didn't have anyone complain. > > It was originally done in: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel&m=105009954502262&w=2 > > Note that the /right/ thing to do is to let the toolbars be moved when > in the "Edit Toolbars" dialog (but not torn off). > > regards > john > >