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From:	Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Docking Property Editors
Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:19:13 +0200
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Edward Hennessy (ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> I’m interested in converting some of the dialog boxes to be docked on
> the right side of the main window.

Yes please!
The constantly popping dialogue UI paradigm was generally abandoned about 
15 years ago for a reason. Even gimp, the king of floating pop-ups 
switched to a less window intensive UI.

 
> - Is anyone interested in keeping the option to use them as separate
> dialogs? - Is anyone opposed to adding GDL (Gnome Docking Library) as a
> dependency?

What infrastructure does inkscape use for its docked dialogues?
Inkscape is a gtk application which runs fine in windows and apple since 
ages. And it is pretty popular too. 


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