[plug] Re: customising quanta plus interface

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:20 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
> Anyone experienced using quanta plus and customising the interface?
> 
> Specifically, I find it an annoyance to have the file tabs at the bottom
> of the window when all the toolbars are at the top. When working on a
> project with several pages open and actively editing, my mouse traverses
> a lot of territory switching between open file tabs and then back up to
> switch between vpl/source/preview views, for example. I've googled and
> searched the project website but can't see any reference to being able
> to change it, which seems a little strange given that you have much
> control over changing the toolbars. Suggestions welcome.

One for the archives, I guess:
I couldn't find any option to do this as I originally wanted. But, I did
find that you can drag and drop the file tabs with a middle click, only
able to change order left and right, not switch them between top and
bottom of the file editing space, unfortunately. The best compromise is
to customise the toolbars to appear at the window bottom, near the file
tabs. While not a 'standard' way to look at the gui, it achieves the
original wish to minimise mouse movement. sigh. 

I do find that quanta is living up to its positive reviews now that my
basic level of html authoring is improving. Give it a look if you're so
inclined. I had started really basically and used nvu/kompozer up till
now (give me a break, I had to start somewhere while being self-taught)
but they had annoyances and limits that even I quickly found. Comparing
them to seamonkey reveals that as their parent package, so no point
looking at seamonkey for an alternative. OTOH, Quanta is quite different
to all three of those. My $0.05 :-)   

Gavin