Explore QMainWindow Docks about qdirstat HOT 2 CLOSED

Experimental branch:

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat/tree/huha-docks

from qdirstat.

The way it looks like this would work technically, but still there are two issues with that File Type Statistics window to move it into such a dock:

• It consumes way too much screen space. This only works reasonably on really large screens -- full HD and up. On my old (but trusty) laptop with its measly 1280x1024 resolution (and a font size that I can read), there is not much left for the content area of the main window when I do this.

• Once those panels are open, users rightfully expect them to be automatically updated. This is expensive in terms of performance and resources, and it makes the user interface appear sluggish overall.

  So the options would be to either not update automatically and live with outdated data (bad!) or to live with a sluggish user interface (worse!) or to tell users not to use it and switch on those panels only when they really need them badly (ugh! why have them in the first place?). The sluggishness might be alleviated a little bit with some update-after-timeout once more (there is something similar in the treemap).

Right now I don't think I want any of that.

Those who really use those panels can use them right now, but as pop-up windows; they are intentionally non-modal, i.e. you can still make full use of the main window while they are open. And they remember their size and position, so you can arrange them once in exactly the way you want them and then treat them as a kind of extension of the main window.

from qdirstat.