[Bf-committers] Since you are already refactoring the UI: Auto-hiding the buttons window.

[john tuffen]

I thought of more of a panel - i.e. it'd float over the current screen set, and
then disappear - the underlying screen set wouldn't resize... Now (of course)
if it were a floating 'panel', then it could actually be moved anywhere on
screen - so the popup panel wouldn't necessarily be at the bottom of the
screen, it'd be wherever you last put it.

Agreed about the Caps lock button btw - just a fanciful idea :)

Actually, what I'd *like* to see is undockable windows etc., since I would be
able to drag the buttons etc. out onto my other monitor (I run dual headed). I
have never managed to satisfactorily get Blender working across both monitors
unfortunately (even the render preview insists on displaying over the main
window).

Of course, I'm probably not using a particular hot-key :)

john..

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Quoting Mal <mal at candomultimedia.com>:

> So, instead of Ctrl+UP ( maximising the current window ), the new hotkey 
> would only toggle panels that are tagged in a certain way, and re-size 
> the rest of the interface to take up the space?
> 
> > john tuffen wrote:
> >
> >> How about this as a 'middle ground'? Use a keyboard shortcut (a 
> >> single key) to
> >> show/hide the panel?? We already have the overlay technology in the 
> >> floating
> >> panels, so the buttons could simply 'float' over the other views...
> >
> >
> > Photoshop uses this method to good effect. Pressing the tab key 
> > toggles all of the tool windows on and off and makes for a much 
> > cleaner interface when dealing with large/zoomed images.
> >
> > Dan Brown


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