Timeline for Are there studies on how well window glueing is received?
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| S Jun 25, 2014 at 17:56 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jun 25, 2014 at 17:56 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 21, 2014 at 10:47 | vote | accept | Vlad Topala | ||
| Jun 19, 2014 at 18:01 | answer | added | Abhilash | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 10:40 | comment | added | Vlad Topala | I wasn't thinking so far ahead. For starters I don't want any stacking, just grouping close windows or internal frames. | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 20:25 | comment | added | nightning | @Vlad I'm used the photoshop's implementation of dragging and dropping to group panels. It's very visual based as oppose to using trigger keys. It's also a heck of a lot more work to implement. youtu.be/jup9kMp681w?t=5m I think you should ask the question, are floating/grouping panels really necessary for your app before you implement them. | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | Vlad Topala | @nightning If you know any implementations that are different or special in any way please do tell :) | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 19:26 | comment | added | nightning | Don't know of any studies on this subject, but it's a common enough in apps with lots of control panels. Always glued together works if there are many little panes that are annoying to move about independently or some panes really make sense to be grouped together. Having a trigger may be helpful if the user needs different grouping of panes depending on their task. This is also dependent on whether users will spend the time to learn the trigger. For something like graphics tool like Photoshop or CDE it makes sense. For simpler apps maybe not. | |
| S Jun 17, 2014 at 16:34 | history | bounty started | Vlad Topala | ||
| S Jun 17, 2014 at 16:34 | history | notice added | Vlad Topala | Canonical answer required | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 21:48 | comment | added | Vlad Topala | The reason I asked about this is that I want to build a very simple to use Java library that does this and was curious what users would expect. First of all I see two ways it can work. 1. Always glue windows and only move them together when the main window is dragged; 2. Have a trigger (Ctrl, Shift, Both mouse clicks) that makes windows snap together and move groups together when any window in the group is moved. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 1:47 | comment | added | That Realtor Programmer Guy | I'd be interested to see any usability studies on this, but I'd be a little suprised if someone has them available. Still, I think it is a very useful feature that at worst should have a toggle icon in one of the lower corners of a window. I often want to dock sub-windows for the same reason that locking external windows together is useful. | |
| Jun 7, 2014 at 18:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/475349394414247936 | ||
| Jun 4, 2014 at 17:50 | comment | added | joeytwiddle | I really liked the interface Eclipse offered for re-arranging panes. You could drag and drop panel titles and it would often end up going where I had wanted it to go! | |
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| Jun 4, 2014 at 14:20 | history | asked | Vlad Topala | CC BY-SA 3.0 |