Re: Detachable sidebar

On 16 Apr 2006, at 20:32, Joshua Root wrote:

> Jonathan Tyzack wrote:
>>> On 16 Apr 2006, at 17:02, Marcus Jüngling wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. The sidebar with the tabs should be detachable to take it  
>>> anywhere
>>> all over the screen.
>>> 2. Second is to change the size in every direction of the sidebar  
>>> when
>>> it is detached.
>>
>> while on the surface that sounds like a nice idea, it just  
>> wouldn't work
>> in the real world. Which window would it be associated with if you  
>> have
>> more than one open at a time? It would be impossible to tell.
>
> While I don't think this is a very useful thing to do, in its defence
> GraphicConverter does something similar with its tool palettes.  
> Each image
> window has an associated palette which can be moved anywhere, and  
> the problem
> of associating palettes with windows is solved by hiding all the  
> palettes
> which belong to background windows.

Or even Photoshop which replaces the content as you switch windows.   
Specifically, the layers palette.  In that light I don't think the  
resizing issue is a big problem.  Then again I also don't think I'd  
use a floating palette with OW.  It's probably the difference that in  
OW you don't have a multitude of palette windows floating around,  
it'd be pretty hard to implement all the palettes in PS as drawers.

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