Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-09-01 Thread Andrew Sutherland
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015, at 03:25 PM, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > That's definitely an interesting idea. Do you mean, a tabbed interface > within a top-level browser tab or instead creating new browser tabs? New browser tabs. No need to reinvent the tabbed interface wheel, especially when the current whe

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-09-01 Thread Andrew Sutherland
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015, at 11:52 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > Would you prefer having the toolbox be "full screen" in the WebIDE > window (the way it appears today without sidebars)? It's easy to make > this happens if people would prefer it. It would then cover the > sidebars fully, and you'd need t

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-09-01 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote: ... > I feel like I've heard talk of moving the WebIDE to just be tabs in > Firefox, and that sounds ideal if it means that once I pick an app to > attach to on a specific device endpoint, a tab just opens to debug that > app with just the

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-09-01 Thread J. Ryan Stinnett
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, at 09:41 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: >> At the moment, once a toolbox opens, the toolbox still takes the full >> width of the window, however it no longer goes full height. You can >> resize the toolbox to be as tall

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-08-31 Thread Andrew Sutherland
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, at 09:41 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > At the moment, once a toolbox opens, the toolbox still takes the full > width of the window, however it no longer goes full height. You can > resize the toolbox to be as tall as you like. This was done to make it > more obvious how to con

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-08-31 Thread J. Ryan Stinnett
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, at 07:51 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: >> We are thinking of removing the dropdown layout and switching to the >> sidebar one permanently. If there are some valid concerns for keeping >> it as is, please let us know -

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-08-31 Thread Reza Akhavan
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Andrew Sutherland > wrote: > > Once I'm debugging my app, I don't really want either of those sidebars > eating up my inspector/console/debugger/etc. real-estate. Same here, thanks for mentioning this Andrew. ___ dev-

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-08-31 Thread Andrew Sutherland
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015, at 07:51 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > We are thinking of removing the dropdown layout and switching to the > sidebar one permanently. If there are some valid concerns for keeping > it as is, please let us know - otherwise we'll plan to transition to > this soon. Can you clar

Re: [b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-08-31 Thread Dietrich Ayala
THIS IS AWESOME. On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:51 PM J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > Currently WebIDE uses dropdowns for selecting project and runtime > items. We've been working on a version of the interface that removes > the dropdowns and replaces them with sidebars. > > Check out a screenshot[1] of th

[b2g] WebIDE Sidebar Mode

2015-08-31 Thread J. Ryan Stinnett
Currently WebIDE uses dropdowns for selecting project and runtime items. We've been working on a version of the interface that removes the dropdowns and replaces them with sidebars. Check out a screenshot[1] of the sidebar mode to learn more. You can try out this sidebar mode by setting the "devt