On 10/16/2024 2:38 PM, Stefan-Iulian Alecu via fpc-pascal wrote:
Lazarus does not look complicated. It has it own distinctive look &
feel.
User
should be able to completely detach windows from from main so it
would be
possible to move them to different monitor, virtual desktop & freely
move
on monitor.
You might've not realized that, but this is *foreign* and totally
different from how most IDEs out there function. If you're familiar
with Delphi 7 and lower, great, this feels natural, but the problem is
that other IDEs aren't like Delphi 7. Lazarus is still stuck in that
era, and that's /fine/ (at least, as far as the old Pascal devs are
concerned), but I see most people around me (beginners and otherwise)
immediately dock the IDE or ask me how to do it. Not to mention that
it immediately fails to function for tiling window managers. And
"distinctive look and feel" doesn't mean said look and feel is intuitive.
Sorry, but do you really suggest that Lazarus should intentionally
adjust itself to the shortcomings of other IDEs? Being able to move
windows around over multiple (2 or 3) monitors is the most effective way
to work., like one screen for the source code/object inspector, once
screen for the program output and one for all debug related windows.
Everything easily in view, no need to move around (or resize) windows
like stupid, just because what you want to see is somewhere in a docked
and minimized window...
I believe it would be better if Lazarus was docked by default and give
the option to easily undock it, because far more beginners or curious
people would want to dock it, it's a better default. If you don't
believe me, please look at as many IDEs as you can and tell me *one*
that's undocked like Lazarus is. It genuinely is something unusual and
jarring to newcomers. Maybe there's a reason most other IDEs are
docked, and even if you disagree with that particular decision, it
would be hard to deny the reality that it's how people expect IDEs
today to be structured. Even *RAD Studio* gave up on the idea. Happy
birthday 2002!
Again, just because other IDEs do it differently doesn't mean that this
is in fact the best way to go. It's IMHO rather a result that other IDEs
(which are mostly somehow web browser based) don't handle undocked
windows properly...
Ralf
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