Re: An Enquiry

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:52:14 -0800
mark_at_yahoo via Rosegarden-user <rosegarden-user-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>For anyone who like me spent 30 minutes failing to get this to work 
>before discovering the secret, you have to click on the "resize" bar to 
>the left of the desired panel and then drag. Mouse cursor changes when 
>hovering over the correct spot. FWIW, I'm on a 1920x1080 monitor and 
>normally run the main window around half to 75% full screen width, so I 
>don't have enough room to place all the panels on one line. But it's a 
>good trick to know anyway.
>
>Piggybacking off this (as usual) with another related question: What's 
>the point of having two copies of the marker and loop/measures rulers, 
>one above and one below the tracks? (And similar in the notation and 
>matrix editors.) Screen real estate is *always* limited -- doesn't 
>matter if you have 8K or dual/triple 4K monitors or whatever.
>
>I keep thinking about removing the 2nd/bottom set from my fork of the 
>code but have been warned that trying to do anything as radical as that 
>in the main branch in would result in me being lynched. (Yet it was OK 
>in beta 23.06 to change the track area to "dark" in dark theme? An 
>improvement IMO, but what about the hypothetical user who liked it the 
>way it was?) Even the very few minor-but-incompatible UI changes in the 
>fork were met with disapproval, but since that's the path I'm on maybe I 
>should just continue down it. If anyone has a compelling rationale for 
>the duplicated rulers (beyond "that's the way it's always been") I'm 
>very interested in hearing about it so I can reconsider.
>
>
>On 1/26/23 9:33 AM, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> Well that was curious. I'd tried that many times over with no success, but just
>> tried again and it worked perfectly! Thanks :)
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:36:43 +0000
>> chuck elliot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>   
>>> I think it is possible to do this for yourself by dragging and dropping
>>> toolbars from one panel to the other.
>>>
>>> A whole panel can be hidden by deselecting the toolbars that it contains...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Chuck.

These days I find both the dark theme and the light one give me a headache after
a while. I *much* prefer the older mid range one. Is there any possibility of
this being revived as a third option.

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