The new editor is great, but I really miss the old fullscreen settings dialogs for item properties.
The new editor is great, but I really miss the old fullscreen settings dialogs for item properties. That floating settings window is way to small for convenient editing (and is often in the wrong place initially). Suggestion: would it be possible to get a button to maximize the floating window to fullscreen? That would really help.
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Lutz Linke yessss!! I been thinking the same too… Also a button on the editor for detach by default… I would like there to be the items property section back in the top of a container settings as well as the window, but the maximize is a great idea
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< < Like the old ui (applied to all function), less beautiful but more comfortable to editing (for me).
My old phone have 3.5″ screen size.
… and anyone can tell me where’s “gesture” menu? I can’t find it on new style ui …
edit: found it. I didn’t know if I can resize the editor window and swipe left right to view more options, really small window even after being resized
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I originally liked the new editor, that is until I started using it, it’s not as intuitive and friendly as I had thought. I miss the old one.
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It would be cool if we could select between the old and new editor
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I don’t know what it’s like on a lower resolution device but on mine with the dialog expanded its not much different to full fullscreen with only a minimal amount of scrolling needed. Swiping left and right between screens I find it much more productive than before.
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Mike Bishop This is how it looks like on OnePlus One:
https://app.box.com/s/ipa5a01cmk8ge8qnm6g2w1sbjecgyo45
Very small, only very few properties visible. Especially the Box tab requires lots of scrolling when editing.
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Lutz Linke have you tried dragging it up? If I drag it up it stays full screen (reverts back after a restart would be good if it didn’t but I’m not complaining) I’m using 12.4.1 (r2196)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5mizejs8faytd8c/Screenshot_2015-04-20-10-12-02.png?dl=0
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Mike Bishop Damn, my requested feature is already available?? I could swear I tried that without success.
So: case closed! 😄
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Lutz Linke I thought you want “maximized” button.. Haha
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Be nice to access item properties from the container settings also so we can jump right to it after changing something like layout without having to go back to the home screen editor
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Like it was before but still in the editor also
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Abednego JS Pulling up is some kind of mazimized. And IMHO better then seperate fullscreen window.
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Lutz Linke, I’ve been trying to get around to mentioning that after your OP but somehow never got around to it. Seems kind of an undocumented feature 😉
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I am a bit late, but yes dragging the handle will allow the box to be bigger, and yes the height need to be saved so that it is restored after a restart.
I am not sure whether a full screen version would add something, even on small screen. The reason is that the lost space on the right side doesn’t matter a lot (there is enough space horizontally. Vertically, the handle and the bottom edit bar are using more valuable space, but to compensate for this diminution I tuned the text size and options height so that the number of settings displayed is at least the same, or maybe a bit more than previously. It might be that on smaller screens this makes things less comfortable to use though.
Something else that may be annoying is that the properties box is displayed when not needed (or more generally: not displayed when the user is expecting it). At the moment it is displayed according to its previous state, but it could be tuned, for instance not until the user pushes the pencil button.
A fullscreen mode is still possible, in that case I believe the box properties should never been displayed automatically when entering edit mode.
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Now that’s a good idea, an option to have the properties box not show up on entering the editor would be very useful
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