[Suggestion] docked panes layout

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MedBooster
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[Suggestion] docked panes layout

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I am hereby formally requesting that Thee add the option to dock two panes side-by-side on the bottom and top portion of PDF xce.

As of now, you can only dock two panes side by side on the left and right side. But at the top or bottom it seems that you can only dock one pane at a time.
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Re: [Suggestion] docked panes layout - split layout with the bookmarks pane

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edit:
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never mind, you actually can split more panes at the bottom, but not with the bookmarks pane.
So maybe if you could enable a split-pane layout for the bookmarks pane, that would still be nice

It would also apply to comments, as when you have both comments and bookmarks enabled they combine to one pane and you have the tab toggle to switch between them
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Re: [Suggestion] docked panes layout

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Hello all,

I believe there is a related discussion and feature request from 2019 here:
https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=138601&hilit=Pane+dockable

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Orange: panes with limited dockability
Green: universally dockable panes

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Re: [Suggestion] docked panes layout

Post by TrackerSupp-Daniel »

Hello, David.P

Thank you for bringing this back up, the discussion happened long enough after that I forgot that ticket existed, but there is a reason for this. The universally dockable panes are what is known as "application panes" and are altered application wide. The ones with more restrictions are "document panes" and may not always be opened/in use on all documents. This is why they cannot directly dock with each other, and unfortunately, for the time being, will not be made able to.
Perhaps in the future we will see some change here, but the ticket mentioned in the other post is for the time being "stalled" until we can find time to rework panes entirely and alter this behaviour.

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Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
Tracker Software Products (Canada) LTD

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