It looks very potent! Thank you!
I wonder if there isn’t a way to reclaim the header space the new dashboard layout selector consumes across all the dashboard columns?
There are several alternatives to making it appear to be another gramplet. Each has benefits and drawbacks.
- a popup menu (or combobox) at the center of the status bar
- Renaming main window for the current named layout
- A context menu layout selector, moving the the add/remove/rename controls to the Config menu with the column ount control
My first thought was a toolbar control beside the Configure button. The big downside is that the toolbar is becoming increasingly populated with shortcut buttons. So a variable width control might consume precious space that could be used for future powertool/action buttons or new Dashboard View modes. (Such as a narration/presentation/slideshow Dashboard; a branch/line Dashboard… where gramplets only see a portion of the tree; a full-screen Dashboard where all the splitbars, gramplet titling/decoration and window controls are suppressed; a worklist or research log dashboard; an AI assistance dashboard; et cetera.)
The existing renaming behavior for Dashboard gramplets is a double-click invoking inline text edit … in the gramplet’s titlebar. perhaps we could avoid introducing another pop-up modal dialog for renaming. And another new idiosyncratic way of doing a similar task.