Re: Separation into dock widgets

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Jacob Dawid
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I wrote about that here:
>
>> [...] but DockWidgets are not intended by design what they should do in
>> this case, they rather act as toolbars around the central widget (it is
>> possible to "hack" it by assigning an empty central widget and not allowing
>> them to overlap, but that's is not working well for all situations).

Could you be more specific about what's not working well?
Can't the problems be worked around?

> Please do not judge that by merely saying shortcuts are a bad thing before
> trying out how comfortable this is, we're not average Windows users :). In
> fact, there are also arguments against having a terminal window and the
> editor side-by-side, like wasting screen space for example. Let's recall,
> what are the benefits?

Debugging. When debugging code, having the terminal window and the
source code is important. This is just my opinion, but I think I'm not the
only.

Michael.