gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

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The "puzzled about the purpose of gschem" thread got me thinking about
ways the workflow might be made more efficient, and one thing I thought
of is the ability to dock the dialogue windows to the main window. In
particular, I would find it helpful if I could dock the "add component"
dialogue and the "edit attributes" dialogue to the main window (in a
fashion similar to Inkscape, for those familiar with it).

The current design is good for people with tiling window managers, since
in that case you essentially have the docking feature in the window
manager. However, with floating WMs, it means you have to resize the
windows individually and manually. With a docking feature, the main
window can be maximised, the dialogues can be visible alongside the
screen, and shrinking one panel automatically expands the other. The way
Inkscape does it even allows you to collapse the dock panes into tabs.

Just something I thought would be nice. So, err, yeah.


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