Discuss Opera Dragonfly, Opera's new developer tools.
By DanielHendrycks
Monday, 7. September 2009, 15:19:38

New UI idea- Opera Tabbar+Dragonfly Window
When starting dragonfly and making it in a window form it creates a whole new window in the taskbar.
So I thought of a brand new way to organize the dragonfly windows.
Include dragonfly windows in the tab bar and attach them to the tab they are debugging.Here is the mock-up.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1775/windowdragonfly.png (Not embedded because this is 1/2 of a MB)
As you can see from the MSFT Paint mock-up there are dragonflies next/attached to the tab. Those dragonflies are windows but they are in the tab bar rather then cluttering your taskbar. The dragonflies are attached/next to the tab you would like to debug. This would be a better option then letting the dragonfly window roam around in the taskbar. This is more organized and it lets you keep track of what dragonfly is debugging what tab. You can select a dragonfly window and not a tab to view the window.
Any questions? Please support.
By samMD
Monday, 7. September 2009, 16:06:46

+5, I would love this and this would be really useful!
Post edited Monday, 7. September 2009, 20:15:21
By DanielHendrycks
Monday, 7. September 2009, 18:43:35


Post edited Tuesday, 8. September 2009, 02:35:55
By fearphage
Tuesday, 8. September 2009, 04:44:28

The problem with this is it does not work in dragonfly's current form. Much like Highlander, when it comes to dragonfly, there can be only one. There is one instance of dragonfly for the whole browser. Unfortunately,
although it was requested and emphasized, there is no notion of each tab having its own dragonfly instance. That's why when you switch tabs, dragonfly doesn't disappear. That's why dragonfly has a complete listing of all the tabs.
By dstorey
Tuesday, 8. September 2009, 17:40:40

Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the idea and mock-up. It is an interesting approach. Something like this would require changes both in the browser itself, and the architecture of Opera Dragonfly, but it is certainly something that is worth considering as Opera Dragonfly matures.