Re: [Gretl-devel] window arrangements

Given that "View" is the shortest of all menus and that there are > already nine top-level menus I would tend to favor the View menu. But to > be honest I'm not sure if that's the best approach; on many systems you > have a list of the open gretl windows already in some taskbar (don't > know about windows 7 that Patricio mentioned). So having another such > list inside gretl may be redundant in many situations. > > it is standard on windows to have the windows menu. the only use it commonly has is to access minimized windows inside a mdi interface buried by other windows (which is not the case) and to tile windows. -- BTW, that just inspired an idea: I think it would be helpful if with some command you could "conjure" all gretl windows to the front at the > same time. Actually, if that were possible, I would tend to think that > it's actually not necessary to reduce the number of windows! So, is it > possible? > > well, maybe this could be easily resolved (don't know, not a skillful programmer) with some global keyboard shorcuts (that work in any window). that could improve usability without undergoing ui surgery, leaving that as a separate thing for discussing at another time. something like... ctrl+shift+m main window ctrl+shift+c command window ctrl+shift+h help (global version, keeping h for compatibility) ctrl+shift+s session window ctrl+shift+t tile windows (same on xp as ctrl+clicking several buttons on the taskbar, then right clicking and selecting tile vertically or tile horizontally) ctrl+shift+u bring all windows up ctrl+shift+k only keep active window visible ctrl+shift+p pin window (keep active window always on top) ctrl+shift+pgdn next window ctrl+shift+pgup previous window