[Geany] split window - Re: Change placement of status/compiler/message/scribble/terminal

[Gordon Wrigley]

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 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:31:52 +1100
> "Gordon Wrigley" <gordon.wrigley at 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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