I understand that the implementation would likely be rather quite difficult, I meant it more as a suggestion of a direction rather than an immediate feature suggestion.

I had need to use a 3d cad program recently and the one I settled on was blender, that program totally changed my views on how good a customizable UI can be and left me wishing my other main tools were a lot more blender like. A quick google search for blender screenshots should give you an idea of what it can do. And I do realize that they have implemented a complete tiling windowing system within blender which makes customization a lot easier than in an intentionally light weight application like Geany.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven@btinternet.com> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:31:52 +1100
"Gordon Wrigley" <gordon.wrigley@gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that ultimately this should be part of the split window
> stuff, you allow arbitrary splitting vertically, horizontally and
> nested splitting so you can divide up the screen however you like and
> then you provide the ability to say what sort of window each one is,
> be it edit, side bar or message. That would let you do other useful
> things like having symobls and documents on screen at the same time
> etc.

No, I think sidebar and message window placement is completely
different to what you want for the split window plugin, in terms of
implementation.

BTW, even a simple solution is more complicated because of the issue
that reparenting a Scintilla editor is not really possible in a
portable way ATM (see the october mail about windows problems).

So for now it isn't sensible for anyone to work on ultra-configurable
sub-windows, at least until the Scintilla issue is resolved in some
way (and we agree we want to do it anyway ;-)). That said, simple things
like configuring the message window to be vertical can probably be done
with static containers, i.e. no actual moving of the main notebook
control.

Regards,
Nick
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