[scribus] Request for a feature - 'window memory'

[Sveinn í Felli]

Perhaps history will repeat itself:

Around 1994-96 I was working in a design bureau, using CorelDraw, 
AutoCAD and QuarkXpress in (I guess) Windows 3.11. If I remember 
correctly, all these had some kind of 'profiles' or 'layouts (or 
whatever it was called); these were basically human readable config or 
ini files defining which tools were loaded along with coordinates of 
respective windows.
We used different setups according to whether we were working on traffic 
signs, architecture or book layouts, of course these had to be adapted 
to the screen estate for respective machines.

I've often wondered why modern software has rejected this simple 
approach; small files containing those definitions (could be in XML or 
something), named something like 'laptop_layout', 'proofreading', 
'triple_monitor_layout', etc...

Just thinking  ;-)

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli

Þann 12.11.2019 15:59, skrifaði ZASKE Martin:
> Very interesting sharing.
> 
> 
> Maybe we should all share our preferred way of working, so that the
> developers will know - or so that they can teach us how to do it
> "better". Or to become more Scribuonic.
> 
> I always try to have two physical monitors sideways next to each other.
> I have the main Scribus window on my main monitor. And all the extra
> bits to the left on the other monitor, for example the properties and
> text-properties and layers windows always open, and more windows like
> document-structure (the name is somewhat different) as I need them.
> 
> I know from another space-needing-tool where I use two monitors, that it
> would be a real pain to try pulling the main Scribus window to cover
> both monitors. So nothing gets docked in Scribus, I love the fact that
> the extra little windows can be pulled outside the main window.
> 
> For my other tool, I had help and managed to create an AutoIT script to
> pull the tool over both physical monitors. Maybe I should try that with
> Scribus and then use docking for the helper-windows and see whether that
> gets nicer results. Just when traveling I do not always have the second
> monitor and some tools respond funny when their context changes while
> they are not running.
> 
> (All my above details are about windows 10, although we also run some
> Scribus on OpenSuse Leap in the office, some with two monitors also.
> Linux seems to be good about keeping work-space layout.)
> 
> I would love to hear more from other regular users.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 12.11.2019 18:01, ale rimoldi wrote:
>> hi mike
>>
>>
>>> I played around a little and soem 'windows' did persist after
>>> restarting Scribus, but not all. It seems that one has to dock them
>>> and then move them to get them to persist. This is the first time
>>> I've observed any behaviour like this in Scribus!
>>
>> if you can steps that can be replicated please open a ticket with the
>> exact steps to https://bugs.scribus.net
>>
>>>
>>> Just docking them means less space for viewing the actual document
>>
>> i tend to work on (very) small screens.
>> it's not because a window is docked, that it should stay forever on the
>> screen.
>> in my case, for documents where i need more space, i do an F2 and f3 if
>> i want to hide or restore the palettes.
>>
>> the big advantage is that i don't have to move around my palettes but
>> they are always at the same place, outside of the area where i'm
>> editing my document.
>>
>> other people prefer to dock everything and keep the windows around
>> forever.
>> de gustibus.
>>
>> (i've seen people working with very little usable space...
>> terrifying! ... not only with scribus. and they won't change their
>> mind.)
>>
>> ciao
>> a.l.e
>>
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