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Add the ability to move toolbars to different screen edges #1059

Closed RayJW closed 3 months ago

RayJW commented 3 months ago

Please submit only one feature request in one issue!
I think it would be great if the different toolbars can be movable.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The specific use case is moving the tool selection to the right instead of the bottom. The reason being that palm rejection is not always perfect, especially when working towards the end of the screen. Instead of trying to improve this complex mechanism in the underlying library, I think it would be much easier to give the user the option to change things around while also providing more customizability.

Describe the solution you'd like
Just adding an option to move some of the bars around to different edges would be enough, I think. In a perfect world they would be freely movable, but I don't think that's necessary, and it also makes things much more complex in terms of responsiveness of the UI etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Improve palm rejection which I think would be much more complex and might only improve the situation for some users.

mahdihasan2006 commented 3 months ago

I think this is going be enough.

https://github.com/flxzt/rnote/assets/121625152/2429a9af-464f-4e03-9312-966f599570e1

Additional considerations

  1. Moving multiple toolbars to one side would be good.
  2. Long press in the focus mode button will show additional options to hide each toolbars separately
RayJW commented 3 months ago

That is exactly the kinda idea I had!

Moving multiple toolbars to one side would be good.

I considered that as well, but I think this might cause issues in terms of minimum width and height required to properly display stuff, although having both the tool selection and colours at the top would be my preferred way as well.

mahdihasan2006 commented 3 months ago

I also thought about the problem. This might be a solution.

https://github.com/flxzt/rnote/assets/121625152/18c138e0-9db8-419b-85d5-3bfac4fdc2fa

flxzt commented 3 months ago

There is a Gtk-based library that could enabled this - the one used by Gnome Builder

flxzt commented 3 months ago

let's discuss it further in #367