That’s why I shown all docks as separate menus (“Properties”, “Mapping”, “Transform”) that everyone can arrange to suit their needs ans the screen size.
Sorry for the size of my screenshot (I admit, I wanted to emphasize the ribbon effect;), however I seriously believe that now, when big screns became so ubiquitious (many of my average-home-e-mail+mp3-only-user-friends (in Poland!) have them) what should restrain the designers from using it? Masochism? My impression is, however, that some parts of the FCP’s interface seem to ignore priceless advantages of the big screens…
Personally, I strongly disagree (for me it only continuously changes its state from distracting obstacle to a curtain floating in front of something), however please note that in my version you can always undock it.
I think that the main idea for me is the direct access- basically less clicking switching tabs and opening the windows (especially those like “Properties”, where theres’ actually only few things!)
Well, but not always everything runs so smooth, like W+umlaut that needs more space between dots, so you can easily make it from two periods etc. More powerful the feature, more mess can it accidentaly quickly produce, but should we give it all up? It’s just to make everything more flexible, that’s it.
Very true (thanks for the priceless shortcuts!)
I’m very glad you like it- I really think it would be an absolutely powerful tool connecting advantages of the manual control with digital automation. Simply the best of both worlds!