dockable dialogs iconified vertically ???

bigcheez · Postby **bigcheez** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:39 pm

In the not to distant past, I somehow got all the docked dialogs to iconify vertically.
That is, with the dialogs docked, they all appeared at the bottom with one visible.
How can I repeat this behavior?

Postby **brynn** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:29 am

If you look on the titlebar of the dialog, which is a smaller version than typical titlebars, on the right side, there are 2 tiny icons. One is a right-pointing arrow, which will reduce the dialog to a label along the right side of the window (apparently what's known as "iconified"). The other is an X, which will close the dialog altogether.

Although I'm not sure I've answered your question, because they do not appear at the bottom, they are along the right side of the window vertically. The only way I know to get a dialog at the bottom, is to pull it away from its docked position, and then minimized it. For reasons I don't understand, it doesn't really minimize, not into the taskbar, but sort of hovers above the taskbar....at least that's been my experience. However at that point, the dialog is it's own separate window, not technically docked.

Anyway, let me know if this helps

bigcheez · Postby **bigcheez** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:48 pm

not along the side ... does sound like you understood my first post correctly

with multiple dialogs open, each had only the sub-titlebar showing at the bottom of the docked area and one dialog showing fully visible and docked

maybe this was some sort of 'easter-egg' feature?
I hope I wasn't dreaming Inkscape or I better get of the computer a little :geek:

bigcheez · Postby **bigcheez** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:23 pm

So I'm not crazy ... whew! :ugeek:

I was able to recreate this by dragging the docked dialogs sub-titlebar to the center of another docked dialog
Scroll to the bottom of the attached image to see this

Postby **brynn** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:43 pm

Whoa, how did you do that?
I'm trying to drag one docked dialog onto another, but nothing's happening.
Here's how I've always had it.

: inkiconify.PNG (21.83 KiB) Viewed 1384 times

Edit -- Uh-oh, now I've got this

: inkiconify2.png (36.59 KiB) Viewed 1383 times

bigcheez · Postby **bigcheez** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:53 pm

It wasn't easy.

Have at least one dialog docked.
Then with another docked or floating dialog, drag it's subtilebar on top of another docked dialog.
(don't drop it yet)
If you move it down, you will see a small line where it would be docked if you were to drop it.
Then move your cursor up a little until that line disappears.
And drop it, might need to be on the inactive 3d face of the control.

If you cant get it working, try using a the path editor dialog as your first one docked.
That is because it starts with a large inactive area.

It makes things seem more organized.
But after doing this I was unable to open the preferences from the menu.
I could still open preferences from the toolbar button, then I stacked that dialog too.

bigcheez · Postby **bigcheez** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:05 pm

btw ... I am using Inkscape 0.47 r22583, built Nov 21 2009 on XP Home w/ all updates

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