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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Non-modal Dialogs
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

I think that wouldn't be a problem really. With gtk you can easily
detach a grid from a gtk_paned and attach it to other container, or
window (eg a dialog box), or simply leave it completely hidden. I have
done it before, moving a whole widget tree between different
containers, and it is a relatively quick operation in gtk -haven't
done it with a dialog, but I guess it would be the same. So gschem
could provide a button to make the side panel detachable into a
floating dialog.

You would also be leaving one of the sides the gtk paned orphaned, but
that's not a problem at all; in fact, an orphaned gtk paned looks
exactly as if there was no gtk paned at all, at least on gnome and
win7 desktops, so old users won't notice.

Luis