Re: 16 (Re: Infrastructural complexity.)

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Thomas Lord<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 08:47 +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Thomas Lord<address@hidden> wrote:
>> > _______
>> >  _______________________________
>> >  |         |         |         |
>> >  |         |         |         |
>> >  |  ~~~control~~~panel~~~area  |
>> >  |         |         |         |
>> >  |_________|_________|_________|
>> >  |         | main    |         |
>> >  |   ~~    | edit    |   ~~    |
>> >  |         | area    |         |
>> >  |         |         |         |
>> >  |_________|_________|_________|
>> >  |         |         |         |
>> >  |         |         |         |
>> >  |  ~~~control~~~panel~~~area  |
>> >  |         |         |         |
>> >  |_________|_________|_________|

>
>> This seems to be easy to implement on the elisp level,
>
> I don't see how, c.f. Miles' comments recently.  I mean,
> you need some C-level hackery to have the "five frames
> in one systems window, configurable by those eight bits"
> but then, sure, you can make all the behaviour of that nice
> by hacking at the elisp level.


I mean the layout, not tool bars, tab bars etc. (Forgot exactly what
Miles meant.)

And I do not think of the 4 panels in this layout as panel windows. I
think of them as panel CONTAINERS for panel windows.