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An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
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how to dock panels on the right (or bottom, top etc)? #10113

Open nebulaszlonemethi opened 9 years ago

nebulaszlonemethi commented 9 years ago

Hi, i'm wondering how can i arrange the open panels (extensions) on different places than the default? E.g. showing an extension on the right, like this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hirse/brackets-outline-list/master/screenshots/outline.png I guess it is simple, however i couldn't do it, neither found it in the docs..:S

Mark-Simulacrum commented 9 years ago

I don't believe that this is currently supported - however, I think someone on IRC was working on something like this.

On Mon Dec 08 2014 at 3:22:26 AM nebulaszlonemethi notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, i'm wondering how can i arrange the open panels (extensions) on different places than the default? E.g. showing an extension on the right, like this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hirse/brackets-outline-list/master/screenshots/outline.png I guess it is simple, however i couldn't do it, neither found it in the docs..:S

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/10113.

nebulaszlonemethi commented 9 years ago

thx, i realized in the meantime that the above extension (brackets-outline-list) puts a special option into the "View" menu, so the free panel docking is indeed not a general option. I would suggest it (ability to dock panels to top/bottom/left/right) as a feature request, if someone already works on stg like this is nice.

Mark-Simulacrum commented 9 years ago

Perhaps this can be added as a Trello card: As a user, I want to be able to attach panels to the bottom, right, and detach them entirely so that I can organize my workspace to be compatible with the type of panel I'm attaching.

redmunds commented 9 years ago

That can be done by any particular extension, but there are currently no plans for adding that capability to Brackets. The goal for Brackets is to provide extra UI in a quick, context-sensitive way such as Quick Edit, Quick Docs, and Quick View. This will keep it more of a light weight editor as opposed to a heavy weight IDE.

CollinChaffin commented 7 years ago

I just installed this editor hoping to give it a try currently use Atom, VScode primarily but also Sublime or NPP on occasion and thought I was missing something when, after a half hour, could find no way to set the basic panel layout to my liking (and even move some extension panels to the right to properly view them).

Then, after frustration I found this issue #10113 and could not believe what I was reading and what's worse is that after THREE YEARS of this STILL OPEN issue being created, there is apparently still no way to simply alter the basic docking layout of the panels already being presented to the user, be it native or via extension.

If this is correct and I have not missed something and the development team is standing on the comments above, I would offer that there is nothing "slow" or non "light weight" about offering the ability to change the basic panel layout of my editor - even basic lightweight editors like Sublime or Notepad++ handle this, not to mention your primary competitors now of Atom, VSCode, etc. that also ALL allow this (and all have from day one). Heck, I was using common controls and/or coding that basic docking ability into my apps over 25+ years ago back in the early years of VB and VC++ so hopefully this editor being backed by a company the size of ADOBE can surely add these basic features in to remain even remotely competitive with the other offerings. For me, the lack of being able to set the multiple panel layout (primary and/or extensions) )to fit my needs is 100% an immediate showstopper to ever using this editor.