So ran RC2 on Windows 10, I still get the mini-title bars at bottom left when I minimise a non-modal window, hard to see, hard to access (with the keyboard) etc.
So I restarted Windows in safe mode to eliminate my Windows addons, when I started Sigil i got this error:
Code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files/Sigil/python3lib\xmlprocessor.py", line 5, in <module>
from sigil_bs4 import BeautifulSoup
File "C:\Program Files/Sigil/plugin_launchers/python\sigil_bs4\__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
from .builder import builder_registry, ParserRejectedMarkup
File "C:\Program Files/Sigil/plugin_launchers/python\sigil_bs4\builder\__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
from sigil_bs4.element import (
...<3 lines>...
)
File "C:\Program Files/Sigil/plugin_launchers/python\sigil_bs4\element.py", line 8, in <module>
from pdb import set_trace
File "pdb.py", line 87, in <module>
File "asyncio\__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
File "asyncio\windows_events.py", line 8, in <module>
OSError: [WinError 10050] A socket operation encountered a dead network
Suggestions for next release - a) disable plugin option in Manage plugins, b) make all plugins fault tolerant to dead network.
Scratch that, removed the plugins and got the same error. I'll try Safe mode with network - grhhh
Sigil runs OK in Windows 10 Safe mode providing it has a network, maybe it could be made fault tolerant to the dead network condition.
However when a non-modal window is minimised it lands outside the main window, just as it did when my add-ons were running. viz:
I suspect @DNSB was running Sigil full screen and the mini-titlebars only appeared to be in Sigil's status line, i.e. it was an illusion. Those windows have a
locked on top flag set… I recall there being such a thing back when MDI was flavour of the month.
If non-modal windows could be parked in the status line that would be perfect. No need for mini-title bars, a button with a corresponding keyboard shortcut for each would suffice.
BR