Sticky windows are kinda against the blender philosophy of no-overlap-anywhere but I agree with dynamic popups that open and close depending of your commands.
Could you explain a few more? I donāt know if you talk about old t-shelf o new t-shelf.
I thought so too ā¦
but Iām maturing the idea that in the end they are functional
Well I agree with popup windows but they should follow a few conditions.
- They all can be open with keystrokes
- They close if you take the mouse off
- They should be scrollable
- They are contextual and change depending on mode and tool
- They should be predictable
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Yes! This! but, on any active tool and takes the settings of the topbar so, we can get rid the weird tool settings in properties editor.
But that is similar to actual popover 
yesā¦
in fact ā¦ my idea is that they continue to improve the pop over, and at this point the add-ons become icons - ātoolsā that recall these āwindowsā.
when you will see the column layout in the popoover you wouldnāt want that popover.
Improving on your suggestion, I guess that would really work!
and also looks quite clean when blending with the theme colors.
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I donāt see it a good solution, all time seeing popovers over the screen. I see it like a complement to a classic t-shelf. Not for me, but for new users this popovers are hard to discover.
A big gear that clearly suggests āSETTINGSā is hard to discover?
Also, it wouldnt stay open all the time, it would work like the popovers from the topbar.
not pop-ups but if they were windows, it would be much better, so I could fix them, close them, or temporally resize etc (in practice they would be like windows of a desktop, but that emerge only in the area of work)
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I dont like this Idea, popups could be resizable and movabble but I guess desktop windows makes it a bit odd, if they were openGL windows inside the viewport that collapse or dim-out if the nouse is not over then I agree.
not for all the tools, but only when necessary, often it happens to me that I need windows with fixed features, it takes little to become from popups to windows ā¦ when the user deems it appropriate
obviously this is what I mean
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Oh then its fine, I am mostly concerned about overlaps like this:
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I thought so too, but recently with the use of blender 2.8 I changed my mind,
overlapping appears only if you want to make it appear ā¦
But this is easily solvable. I mean, all programs have this issue solved since foreverā¦
If only we could reach the devs taking care of itā¦
Yes, and there are many distinct solutions proposed in this thread that would work equally well.
Iām seeing a lot of extreme solutions here lolā¦ when in fact nothing needs to changeā¦