Toolbox UI/Docking

For discussion...

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610344

Add docking capabilities to the toolbox so it would be possible to dock
another
dialog to the top, bottom, left or right of the toolbox or dock the
toolbox on
the top, bottom, left, or right of another dialog window. (In
multi-window mode
and single-window mode)

From an irc discussion:
(08:44:36 AM) jbaker: speaking of ui, is it possible to move the toolbox
to the
right of the image in sw mode ?
(08:48:33 AM) guiguru: jbaker: should be
(08:48:55 AM) guiguru: it is free tear off and docking in swm
(08:50:14 AM) jbaker: guiguru: i think the toolbox is a different widget
than
the other dialogs, as far as I can tell there is really no place to grab
it...
(08:50:43 AM) guiguru: it is different, but that needs to be fixed then
(08:51:23 AM) Death: Grabbing wilber would make sense for me...

On 02/22/2010 02:17 PM, Jerry Baker wrote:
> For discussion...
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610344
>
> Add docking capabilities to the toolbox so it would be possible to dock
> another
> dialog to the top, bottom, left or right of the toolbox or dock the
> toolbox on
> the top, bottom, left, or right of another dialog window. (In
> multi-window mode
> and single-window mode)

The toolbox is not a dockable right now and it would be a lot of work to
turn it into one because there is a lot of code that assumes it isn't a
dockable. Doing this would add several weeks (in actual time) to 2.8
development time and it would not be worth it.

Note that you can have it to the right of dockables by attaching
dockables to the left of it. Also note that the plan is to allow
rearranging entire columns of docks, and the toolbox is part of a column
and will be movable that way. So the only limitation will be that
dockables can't be put on top of the toolbox, so it's not that serious.

/ Martin

Jerry Baker wrote:

> For discussion...
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610344
>
> Add docking capabilities to the toolbox so it would be possible to
> dock
> another
> dialog to the top, bottom, left or right of the toolbox or dock the
> toolbox on
> the top, bottom, left, or right of another dialog window. (In
> multi-window mode
> and single-window mode)
>
> From an irc discussion:
> (08:44:36 AM) jbaker: speaking of ui, is it possible to move the
> toolbox
> to the
> right of the image in sw mode ?
> (08:48:33 AM) guiguru: jbaker: should be
> (08:48:55 AM) guiguru: it is free tear off and docking in swm
> (08:50:14 AM) jbaker: guiguru: i think the toolbox is a different
> widget
> than
> the other dialogs, as far as I can tell there is really no place to
> grab
> it...
> (08:50:43 AM) guiguru: it is different, but that needs to be fixed
> then
> (08:51:23 AM) Death: Grabbing wilber would make sense for me...


there is a bit of confusion going on here about the toolbox.

you can talk about the toolbox itself, and it is not a dockable
right now (and as Martin said, quite a bit of work to make it).

then there is the toolbox as a column with the toolbox always at
the top and maybe some other dockables (like tool options) also
docked in that column.

right now that column sits in multi-window mode in its own floating
palette type window. in single-window mode, that column should be able
be docked to the left/right of the image or any other dockable column
(the latter docked or in floating window).

that is what I meant to say,

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