Just for fun, and because I like doing this in gvim, I thought I'd
play around with splitting the window into multiple viewports onto the
current working document:
http://gitorious.org/mypaint/mypaint/commits/split-window as a
side-branch of master. It presents as a new submenu:
View → Viewport → Split vertically
View → Viewport → Split horizontally
View → Viewport → Remove
all of which affect the current viewport, a.k.a. TiledDrawWidget. New
TDWs are created and destroyed on the fly and packed in HPaned and
VPaned containers. Any opinions? It might be useful for people who
want an overview-plus-detail[1] way of looking at their current file,
or for people who routinely make side palettes of colour or brush
combinations and use Pick Color or Pick Context on that. Some open
questions:
* Should the switch between the current tdw/viewport happen by
mouseover, or by pointer interaction?
* How do we handle cases like loading a new file?
* Should the current viewport/tdw be marked or outlined in any way?
* Should any of this be saved? Where?
It's very much a power-user feature, so it should probably remain
buried in a submenu. If we decide to give it a keyboard shortcut,
Ctrl+Shift+{H, V, Del} seem sensible to my fingers.
[1] http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/Overview_Plus_Detail
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Andrew Chadwick
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