[GRASS-dev] Python GUI toolkits

[Jachym Cepicky]

It can manage your window manager or your app. Personally I like the way,
gaim does this job. It can use notebook for each chat session in one
window, but you can allways drag&drop one tab and make new window out of
it

jachym

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:47:59PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> > > Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> > > > The way currently gis.m is doing things are IMHO good, I just
> > > > would not add another window on the destop.
> Hamish:
> > > As it is, 4 to 5 windows for gis.m (incl. term and module GUI) is
> > > 2-3 too many.
> David:
> > I agree. I've got half an acre (hectre) of screen and I still can't
> > keep the output windows where I can see it. I'm not sure if I have a
> > solution. Maybe adding some tabs to the control panel on gis.m so that
> > the output can be contained in the same tool?
> > 
> > Personally, I like tools like Jedit that allow you to "latch" windows
> > together so that they act and move together (and remember where they
> > were put when you launch them next time). I don't like windows popping
> > up all over the place in random locations.
> 
> 
> fyi, what I've done to make this less annoying for sawfish WM (Gnome) in
> Linux; place windows in 4 corners (new GUIs pop up in center):
> 
> $ sawfish-ui
> [Matched Windows tab]
> Matches:           Action:
> GIS Manager -      position=(750 . 10)
> ^Map Display 1$    place-mode=top-left
> ^Output - GIS\.m$  place-mode=south-east-going-north
> ^rxvt$  [xterm]    position=(35 . 605)
> 
> 
> In the past we tried to set placement automatically in the Tcl code, but
> Glynn explained it was bad to hard-code in placement -- or more to
> the point override a user's WM settings.
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
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