BUG: Logos 6.0a Beta 2—Guides Open In Small Panels Not Large

From the Release Notes: "Altered the panel placement algorithm so that, when panel types are similar, Guides will prefer the larger panel. This prevents them from opening in unwanted, very small panels"

Before Beta 2 my guides would open in one of the two larger panels (Search or Text Comparison); but now it opens in the smaller panel. This seems to be the opposite of what the fix was supposed be (mentioned in the Release Notes).

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Graham Criddle

Before Beta 2 my guides would open in one of the two larger panels (Search or Text Comparison); but now it opens in the smaller panel

I don't see this behaviour in Windows 8.1

Jack Caviness

Before Beta 2 my guides would open in one of the two larger panels (Search or Text Comparison); but now it opens in the smaller panel. This seems to be the opposite of what the fix was supposed be (mentioned in the Release Notes).

I don't see this behavior in Beta 2 Yosemite, but my active layout already has a couple of guides open in a relatively large panel. Any new guide always opens in that panel.

Opened a different layout which does not have a guide. Guides consistently opened in the largest open panel. At first, the Library on the secondary display. After closing that floating window, new guides consistently opened in the largest panel.

Levi Durfey

I did some more testing with this layout. I closed the small floating window that the guide was opening in, and tried again. This time in opened in another floating window. Only after closing all the floating windows did it finally open in the search or text comparison panels like it did before. So I wonder...in tweaking this feature, did the Dev's increase the favorability for the guides to open in floating windows?

Graham Criddle

So I wonder...in tweaking this feature, did the Dev's increase the favorability for the guides to open in floating windows?

I am seeing this fairly consistently now - when opening Factbook or BWS entries if I have an open floating window then the new panels are opened there. If there are no floating windows these panels are opened docked.

Atlas and BSL are always opened in new floating windows.

Jack Caviness

I closed the small floating window that the guide was opening in

That must be why mine did not open in a small window. Both my floating windows in that layout are large.

Tom Philpot (Faithlife)

I am seeing this fairly consistently now - when opening Factbook or BWS entries if I have an open floating window then the new panels are opened there. If there are no floating windows these panels are opened docked.

I can reproduce this behavior and we'll tweak it so that single panel floating windows are not given as much priority in the placement algorithm.