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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Non-modal Dialogs
From: Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de>
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:24:00 +0200
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On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 17:36 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Stefan Salewski wrote:
> 
> > We have only one property dialog window or area, which can be visible or
> > not. 
> 
> This would receive a warm welcome by me for both aspects.
> 
> 1) only one properties dialogue (which includes attributes)
> 
> 2) an area rather than a pop-up dialogue. While working on a schematic, I 
> almost constantly change some properties of objects. So the dialogue may 
> as well be always visible. It would be nice to be able to shut down the 
> area in case I just want to view a circuit.
> 
> ---<)kaimartin(>---

My last layout suggestion was something like

http://www.ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en

with stacked Gtk Notebook widgets and an log area -- of course both
resize-able up to zero by using Gtk Panes widgets.

For large high resolution screens such a layout is nice -- but of course
some of the old users will not like it, so I guess gschem will never
change its layout. And indeed there may exist reasons why people like
overlapping windows better, i.e. when working on a smartphone display or
with multiple monitors where separate windows can live on separate
screens.