[Gretl-devel] Re: The post-conference GUI arrangement thread
Am 24.06.2019 um 09:52 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
Allin and I briefly discussed a few ideas over dinner in Naples, and I
believe the following proposal may be a good starting point for
keeping together different needs.
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When you launch the program, TWO windows appear: one is the present
GUI main window, which would remain unmodified (bar some marginal
adjustments --- see below); I'll call this the "basic" view. The other
one is what I'll call the "pro" view. The pro view should typically
occupy the full screen, and would look like this (
If the pro view is just one window of two, how can it occupy the full
screen (without hiding the other window)?
Apart from that, your arrangement doesn't sound bad. Plus, gluing two
windows together seems relatively easy on many OSes, so as a user one
could even consolidate the two.
[*] Although, I must say, it could be an OS thing. I spent some time
on a friend's pc yesterday and I must admit that on Windows it's not
at all easy to chase all the windows that we open today when we do
things. I find this not to be a problem on Linux.
I think that's right and is also related to Artur's point of using
virtual desktops. Emulating that on Windows has lots of devils in the
details. For example, I think nowadays you can put a group of windows on
a different virtual screen in Windows 10 relatively easily, but if the
application opens new windows -as gretl does- they appear somewhere else.
I know the Gnome/GTK movement always had the credo that window
management is for window managers and not for the programs themselves,
but the reality is that MS Windows still follows a different approach there.
cheers
sven