Comment 2 for bug 923241

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Additional info:
The crash was reported after discussing recent changes in the dock behavior how multiple dialogs in the main dock are laid out:

Inkscape 0.48.2 and earlier builds from trunk (before the recent changes to 'src/libgdl') always add docked dialogs in a single column by default - expanding the dock vertically and displaying a scrollbar if the sum of their heights exceeds the max height of the dock in the current document window.

Recently, this behavior changed: multiple dialogs now are often laid out on top of each other with a row (or column) of switcher buttons below (e.g. if multiple docked dialogs had been minimized and then de-minimized again). This kind of layout can also be achieved intentionally (even in 0.48.x) by drag&dropping a docked dialog onto the center of another docked dialog.

It seems unclear (or somewhat random) what sequence of steps (open docked dialog, minimize, de-minimize) exactly triggers which dialog layout is used in the main dock.