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

[Marcelo Coelho]

Hi!


IMHO, Anjuta has the most featureful interface in that sense, but it
took several revisions to have right. I think, that Genay would do
fine with a flag that would select between having that "area" at the
bottom or on the right. That, I think, is much easier to implement and
more robust. The result is almost the same.


Cheers,
Marcelo (the user that awaits this feature and that doesn't know how
to code GTK) :p


2008/11/21 Gordon Wrigley <gordon.wrigley at gmail.com>:
> 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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