[Reopened] Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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[Reopened] Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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1) Overall idea / goal

I have in mind a presentation mode in which you can show multiple Editor Windows nearby on a single screen with the windows having little to no chrome at all. No window footer at all, window header only on hover, and the total expert mode being no window chrome at all (window header disabled entirely, but still grab-able for move operations).

This would allow one to make ad hoc screen compositions with nearby positioned windows, each having their own zoom factor, or zoom being uniform (due to preferences), everything is possible. Certain windows could represent scrollable content, while other dynamically change by using the the "Prev/Next Image in Folder" commands when having the window focused.

To make this possible the following adaptations would be necessary:


2) GC > Menu > View

would get one section for toggling the various layout elements of the window quickly (a mix of existing and new toggles):

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- √ Show Header              `  ⌃ H`
- √ Show Toolbar (in Header) `⌥ ⌘ T`
- √ Show Selection Frame     `  ⌃ S`
- √ Show Ruler               `  ⌃ R`
- √ Use Color Profile        `  ⌃ P`
- √ Show Footer              `  ⌃ F`
---
and the corresponding ad-hoc options would be in a corresponding section later:

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- Header Style                     >
  - √ Normal
  -   Transparent (always on)
  -   Transparent (on hover)
- Toolbar Style                    >
  - √ Automatic
  -   Expanded
  -   Unified
  -   Unified Compact
  -   Customize Toolbar…
- Footer Style                     >
  - √ Normal
  -   Transparent (always on)
  -   Transparent (on hover)
- Extras (in Footer)               >
  - √ None
  -   Size & Resolution
  -   Basic Exif
---

3) What can be set ad-hoc via menu and shortcuts can also be set as a preference for newly opened windows.

GC > Preferences > General > Display Windows > Main Window

The section "Show" gets renamed and restructured like this:

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NEW WINDOWS SHOW:

      Window Header:  [ Normal                ▾ ]
                       ☑️ Show header

Toolbar (in header):  [ Automatic              ▾]
                       ☑️ Show toolbar

       Content Area:   🔲 Rulers 🔲 Units ☑️ Use Color Profile

  Window Footer Bar:  [ No additional data in footer ▾ ]
                       ☑️ Show footer

Similar Software

PureRef provides a totally chrome-less multi image moodboard, even as a global overlay.
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Re: Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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Build 6405 can now hide the footer:
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Re: [Partial] Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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✅ Show/Hide Footer works. Somehow also useful on itself for some use cases.

Still to estimate how realistic my plans for that seamless ad-hoc multi windows presentation are:

Are the other window components also capable to show/hide?
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I can hide the title and toolbar, too.
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Re: [Partial] Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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Only the title and toolbar within the top window bar?

Or can you go completely chrome-less like "QuickTime Player.app" which is content only, and only when hovered shows the top window bar (not changing the window size, but just superimposing the window top bar on top of the topmost 50px of video content).

If you can do this indeed, could you also introduce the menu entries as proposed in my initial post?

Then power users with that my ad-hoc demo/presentation use case could really do this with GraphicConverter shortcuts! 🙂

(And no worries: I will make sure to backup my customized shortcuts and preferences, to help myself by a reset+restore in worst case scenarios, where GC windows possibly could get inaccessible, due to some unlucky combinations. This clearly is an operation mode for pro users only.)
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Re: [Reopened] Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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Quick Time

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Is this what you want?
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Re: [Reopened] Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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I check the window manager options. I can't hide the complete title bar for the standard windows.
So, this topic is done at the current stage.
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Re: [Reopened] Multiple windows nearby in minimal chrome mode

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See what's possible regarding ▶️ Mac Apps with minimal or no Window Chrome demonstrated in the apps QuickTime Player, mpv, Floating.

@forum_adm: Even if the goal of this very issue here can only be partially implemented (let's see what you can learn from the Floating app!), if you could achieve window transparency then your proposed Smart Crop in all open windows would achieve my use case of visually aided multi crop 👍 — I would then simply put all windows at the same exact position and size and zoom factor on top of each other, then activate window transparency. Thereby create a selection which includes all relevant content in all files as observeable from their blended visuals. And that selection then serves for "Smart Crop in all open windows". 🙂
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