Minimizing Layouts?

Douglas L Chipman said:

 

Hello,

 

What do you think about having the ability to minimize layouts to the "gray screen" for faster loading between studies?

 

Thanks.

Even better! It could minimize back into it's thumbnail icon located on the gray screen, with a setup kind of like the "Fast Dial"  addon in FireFox.

How are you guys making the "screen shots"?

Show me, and I'll post one.

Thanks!

Kevin Becker said:

Douglas L Chipman said:

What do you think about having the ability to minimize layouts to the "gray screen" for faster loading between studies?

You can drag layouts to your favorites. If you use this in conjunction with the "Close all" command you can probably simulate what you are talking about. Personally, I hated the minimize feature of Libronix because I kept losing windows; I realize that your suggestion isn't exactly like this (I'd have to see what you mean by "gray screen", but I wouldn't want any option that would make it possible to accidentally hide stuff behind other stuff.

I would support, however, a way to make updating saved layouts (whether automatically or by a click or two) so you could go from Layout to layout without the current cumbersome way to update saved layouts.

Hello Kevin,

I understand what you mean. The "gray screen" I am talking about is "between" layouts when the homepage is not "default" :

C:\Documents and Settings\Family\Desktop\2010-01-06_2146.png

They would not necessarily be "behind" anything, but rather hidden until needed in a fast way. Upon loading an unloading current layouts I noticed a long overlay of time, even with them "short-cutted" in my shortcut bar. So to be able to "minimize into a "thumbnail" on the gray screen, your current layout, being untouched/unchanged, and open another (possibly already minimized into another thumbnail) would be significantly faster, still having the manuverability and manipulability of the "layout menu" at the top (out of the way; as it is). So to be able to minimize each of the current layouts you are working with instead of completely closing down one and then reopening another would, I think, be quite convenient. The gray screen layout would look something like this :

C:\Documents and Settings\Family\Desktop\2010-01-06_2141.png

And the options for how many thumbnails are to be posted, what size, and these sorts of things could be made available to customize on a "right-click".

Let me know what you think!

Thank you!

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