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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

On 12/07/2013 01:42 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I have just committed a small change to the testing branch (r4529) to
> the Pcbnew footprint viewer that will allow the main toolbar to be
> dockable.  I would like some feedback about how well saving and loading
> the window state between session works on various platforms before I
> start to do this to all of the KiCad application main frame windows.
> The wxAui stuff was put in place a few years ago with the intent that
> all of the fancy layout features would be enabled.  Since that hasn't
> happened I thought I would start working on it incrementally rather than
> get carried away an create a lot of problems.  When you have some spare
> time, please test it and let me know if there are any major issues.  I
> don't have wxWidgets 3 on my Linux partition and no access to OSX so
> feedback from those users is very important since I cannot test those
> platforms.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne

Hi Wayne,

It is a great idea to have dockable toolbars. I tested it with wxWidgets 
2.8/Linux and the freshest wxWidgets 3.0 and in general it works fine 
and the position of toolbar is saved.
One major problem I stumbled upon is that while using wx3.0, I somehow 
lost the toolbar and now I cannot recover it. It could be an issue of my 
window manager, but anyway - it could be good to have a menu where one 
can toggle toolbars visibility.

Regards,
Orson