[josm-dev] Right side panel improvements ...

[Ulf Lamping]

Dirk Stöcker schrieb:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> 
>> 4) remove the toggle icons for the panels from the toolbar?
> 
> Please not. I already added options for hiding. Exposing these options to 
> config should be enough. Nowadays with these wide screen displays I prefer 
> to have toolbars, so not all users really want these icons to vanish.

Well, I prefer to have toolbars only for stuff that is *very often* used 
- this makes it a lot nicer to work with IMHO.

Question is: After I've worked a few hours with the new minimize panel 
option, I got the impression that it doesn't really makes sense to use 
the "close" option such often that it qualifies for such an amount of 
toolbar items?

I mean, most of the showing / hiding is better done through minimizing / 
normalizing than closing / opening.

All in all, for day to day usage I expect that people will use the new 
minimize feature - it's a lot more useful than closing a panel IMHO.

>> P.S: I've thought about implementing resizable panels, but this is a lot
>> more complicated to implement and a PITA if you resize your window size.
> 
> When you save relative values that should work. I.e. not Selection is xxx 
> height, but selection is xxx%. These % must be relative to the size at 
> all, so when 5 views are open and you make one view 40% of the whole 
> window, then it's height must be 200% (i.e. 200%*20%=40%). Together with 
> some minimum requirements thus should give a good view.

Makes sense, but implementation is still complicated ;-)

>> P.P.S: I'm unsure if i did i18n right, but doesn't look too bad ;-)
> 
> Your reworked strings certainly killed lots of translations. I will fix 
> these as soon as you slow down :-) Or maybe tomorrow.
> 

Is there a problem with my implementation or only that people now needs 
to translate some new stuff?

Regards, ULFL