I can sort of see = the utility of panels in general, though this particular set is a little ou= t there from the perspective of how I've used gschem.=C2=A0=C2=A0

Making it dockable, ala Qt's dock= widget, would certainly be a improvement. I have no idea how that would wo= rk in scheme,=C2=A0 and how much effort it would take for a comparable impl= ementation.=C2=A0

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In terms of pan= els / docks,=C2=A0 the stuff I would have considered useful (though I would= still be hesitant about committing so much real estate to it) would be the= page manager, attributes editor, and perhaps the library (insert component= )=C2=A0 dialog,=C2=A0 some sort of indicator for schematic hierarchy (prefe= rably tied into the page manager).=C2=A0

In the world of wide-screen monitors, there's really no excuse = for the bottom panel. The cost is simply too high. What would make it accep= table, in my mind, to give up the right side, assuming those docks / panels= exist and if they showed up in a context dependent way, so that whatever i= s currently visible on it makes contextual sense.=C2=A0 Attributes would sh= ow up only when a component is selected, etc. And all the contextually mean= ingful panels should share the available vertical space. Again, this is pro= bably a great deal of work for little gain. While I am open to helping some= , I can't say that my skills would be particularly useful. Since I'= m not putting any of my time into it right now, I can't say that someon= e else's time is worth it.=C2=A0

While one window would be nice, it really does have to be pretty well d= one before it contributes more than it costs. The gimp still uses multiple = windows, and many of them that can go on forever. Their base UI itself has = three separate windows.=C2=A0

On Sep 7, 2017 00:32, "Milan Prochac (milan AT prochac DOT sk) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

On 06.09.201= 7 20:23, Roland Lutz wrote:

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Shashank Chintalagiri (shashank DOT chintalagiri AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-us= er AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

The new panels on the bottom and on the right are wholly unnecessary. [=E2= =80=A6] Can I please have my screen edges back?

Edward, are you planning to finish the docking code?

If not, I'd suggest moving it to a feature branch unless someone volunt= eers to add the missing code.=C2=A0 I'm not too eager to do so since th= is probably means we won't ever have dockable dialogs; however, the UI = has been in this state for two years, and I think it's better to revert= to a working state than to drive interested users away with a broken inter= face.

At least the patch from https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda/+bug/1492834 can be implemented.

Milan

Roland