[Lazarus] New user interface for future major releases of Lazarus

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

I prefer the multiwindow approach too, although i mostly align the windows
in tiles that could theoretically be done in a docked window.

I tried the dock manager (AnchorDocking i think) but i found two problems
that made me not stick to it:

1. The form designer wasn't part of the docked window which was obscuring
it. With the multiwindow approach i leave the a big hole at the center for
the form designer and the code editor (which is the default basically).

2. The titles had some hideous big fat bevels made of extreme ugliness
which looked bad even in the "classic" Win9x theme, let alone the Aero,
Aqua and whatever Ubuntu uses. I'm a visual person and this stuff bothers
me a lot :-P. Since no widgetset (AFAIK) provides styling features for such
things i think the only solution would be to make these styleable by the
user.

Keep in mind that it has been a while since i tried it though so things
might have changed.


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Avishai <avishai.gore at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with Michael.  I tried AnchorDocking and it did not work for
> me.  I need to be able to change values in the Property Editor and see
> the Form at the same time.  I could not do that with Docking.
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:40 AM,  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Felipe Ferreira da Silva wrote:
> >
> >>        I would like to propose and discuss about a new graphical user
> >> interface for the next major releases. Nowadays, most of the RAD tools
> use a
> >> docked interface(MonoDevelop, Delphi, VS), and in some cases they are
> >> stylish(like the recent Visual Studio versions). I think that a
> >> better-looking IDE would not just make the programming task more
> pleasant,
> >> but also could attract more people to Pascal.
> >>
> >>        I know about the existence of AnchorDocking package for a docked
> >> IDE, but I think that if such feature were built-in, the IDE could be
> >> improved with appropriated features for a docked app - and since the
> forms
> >> would be still undockable, the user could switch back to the
> "Delphi7-like"
> >> interface.
> >>
> >>        My propose is ask if you guys would mind if I work on some
> projects
> >> with a different interface and made in Lazarus(of course) to you
> evaluate.
> >> I'm good at create components and customize to give them a stylish
> >> appearance like in the case of VS. But I would like to know from you
> guys
> >> first.
> >
> >
> > As long as you can completely undo it, I don't see why not.
> >
> > Not everyone is comfortable with the so-called docked interface.
> > Tastes in what is considered a 'modern gui' change every so-and-so years.
> > It's not because an interface has been around for a while that it is less
> > good.
> >
> > I work with Delphi XE, and reverted completely to the D7 look, including
> the
> > 'old' component palette. Even my windows 7 has the 'classic' look.
> >
> > Michael.
> >
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