Re: Where is "Explore from here"?
David Strupl <[email protected]>
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Jan Rojcek wrote: > The notion of document is the same in most of the IDEs. I think > everybody would understand that. I don't build IDE. > > So, what are the specific windows you or users you heard from want to > dock somewhere but it is not possible? We use different terminology. We use term "Tool" to refer to usually TopComponent. Tool can be tree view or map view or list or whatever suitable. It makes sense IMHO for e.g. the tree based tools to be able to be docked anywhere. They can be easily your documents and also the help views. The distinction is IMHO useless - at least for us. One user might use the tree as primary view for something (document) while the other might use it as helper for something else. There can be several instances of tool opened at the same time (like document) but the tool might not be the primary focus of the user (help view). My only concern is that the command line switch that allows to disable enforcing these things will be preserved. Best, David