On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Niraj Dudani blusynapse@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps some of this applies to GTK, instead of Geany.
I am satisfied with the locations of the toolbar, sidebar, message window, and the notebook tabs as I've configured them.
However occasionally I will temporarily like to move things around. Currently there is limited flexibility to do so, and one has to access preferences to do this.
I suggest the following features: (1) Ability to move widgets around (like the side-bar) with snapping. Things can always be locked in place to avoid annoyances due to accidental moving. (2) Autohide. I find this annoying myself generally. But I would find it helpful in some circumstances. Again, autohide works best with an "pin-in-place" button. (3) Fading: I don't think I've seen this anywhere before, and hence might be difficult to implement, but I think I'll find this very helpful. I suggest that some/all widgets outside the editor be dimmed (low contrast/brightness) at all times, but that they get lit up again when they receive focus, or a mouse hover. I keep the sidebar visible always, and I think fading it will reduce clutter. I need to look at the info on the sidebar only when I'm intending to jump to another file/symbol. Likewise for the notebook tabs, which I look at only when I'm switching tabs using keyboard/mouse.
Thanks! Niraj
(1) Geany uses a Glade generated UI and AFAIK this is not possible with Glade generated UIs (2) whilst we can hide things, as you say autohide is usually annoying and would need a very clear definition of when things hide/unhide (3) this would be *very* hard to define in a way that it would never interact badly with your desktop themes or Geany themes, let alone implement
Cheers Lex
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