[Qgis-user] Separate or combined windows for Qgis canvas and Layout (or being able to dock the Python scripting console panel to a Layout window)

[Luigi Pirelli]

Hi Patrick

seems more a question for the developer list where many UX involved people
can give you opinions.

Luigi Pirelli

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On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 05:48, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just have a question here about the use of separate application windows
> for the Qgis application main window and the Layout window. Obviously
> the separate layout windows can be multiple in number whereas most of
> the time we only need one application main window open.
>
> However for me there is the question of having different toolbars and
> panels available in the two different types of window. Whilst they do
> fulfill different functions of the application, the crossover between
> those functions that is easy to achieve when running a script somewhat
> blurs the merits of separate windows and raises the question of why
> panels and toolbars can only be used in one or the other windows but not
> both.
>
> In other words should you have the two distinct types of window or one
> window that can have a combination of panels and toolbars from anywhere.
> Granted that that would be a challenge if implemented to its fullest
> extent since most of the panels and toolbars are specific to each window
> type and the canvas would have to become some sort of panel as well.
>
> My view on this is mostly driven by the apparently reasonable conclusion
> that the Python scripting console panel should not be limited to only
> being able to be docked to the application main window instead of the
> layout window as is currently the case. I have a script that performs a
> layout export to image and I have to keep switching backwards and
> forwards between the main window and the layout window to run the
> script, which can be for hundreds of export operations in a day. The
> script itself reduces the number of mouse clicks needed to run each of
> the individual exports by automatically selecting the layers to make up
> an export in the main window.
>
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