I'm going to do some mockups of how the panels can be made a bit more compact and not stretch or resize with opening or closing of other panels. This bug may not be the right place. Would Blueprints https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/ be a better place? Or a Wiki somewhere? It would basically spell out some layout guidelines with mockups, which maybe others could build on. I cannot code, I sometimes wish I could. I can only suggest what I think might be a more professional polish, though I understand Inkscape is basically still alpha software. A lot of Opensource projects, particularly in Gnome/GTK, has a problem there.
Another screenshot from the Feb.7 build for Windows showing the problem of resizing in both directions after the large Filter Effects panel has been opened and minimised.
I'm going to do some mockups of how the panels can be made a bit more compact and not stretch or resize with opening or closing of other panels. This bug may not be the right place. Would Blueprints https:/ /blueprints. launchpad. net/inkscape/ be a better place? Or a Wiki somewhere? It would basically spell out some layout guidelines with mockups, which maybe others could build on. I cannot code, I sometimes wish I could. I can only suggest what I think might be a more professional polish, though I understand Inkscape is basically still alpha software. A lot of Opensource projects, particularly in Gnome/GTK, has a problem there.
Another screenshot from the Feb.7 build for Windows showing the problem of resizing in both directions after the large Filter Effects panel has been opened and minimised.