Hi forum,
I'd like to have the search pane only turning up and taking up space in the Lister which actually is the parent to the search. Instead it seems that the search pane always spans both listers, which is inconvenient if the two listers are rather wide, see below with my tree monitor setup.
Any thoughts?
David.P
So you'd potentially want two find panels open at once? (And/or have it jump from one side to the other if it was locked to the Source and you activated the other side?)
Hu, what resolution is this? 
I wouldn't care, basically. I only need a less wide find panel, but I already suppose that it is not possible.
The find dialog COULD be a solution if it's output only could be directed into one of the currently open listers.
Another great feature for the find panel would be if it could be set to simply replace the second lister.
sigh
Click the = or || icon next to the panel's close button and it will switch to a vertical layout. (I think it may appear after the viewer, rather than before, though. And that option is going away in the future as, except on unusual setups with a single window spanning multiple monitors, the vertical layout was felt too thin to be useful.)
Not so good. In this case, the listers get resized and don't fit the three monitors anymore, see below.
Sorry, I don't seem to understand any of the above.
If you adjust the sizes of things and then re-save your Default Lister (or Layout if that's what you're using) then the sizes should stick.
(Presumably you did that once already, probably a long time ago, to get the current setup with each file display and the viewer being aligned to a monitor.)
Looks like the vertical Find Panel appears before the viewer, not after it, so my memory was incorrect there. That's good.
If i resize things to fit the pane dividers with the monitors, and then close the find pane, I get this 
Ah, true; I didn't think of that.
I don't think there is a way in that case.
Thanks 
I guess you could do it using Lister Styles to toggle between the two states.
i.e. Instead of opening/closing the Find panel directly, switch between two styles, where one has it turned on and the other has it turned off. The styles store the positions/sizes of things so that should work.
Click the = or || icon next to the panel's close button and it will switch to a vertical layout. (I think it may appear after the viewer, rather than before, though. And that option is going away in the future as, except on unusual setups with a single window spanning multiple monitors, the vertical layout was felt too thin to be useful.)[/quote]
I must be misreading this, tell me you're not getting rid of the two pane vertical layout in opus 10, it's the only one I use.
Don't worry, it only affects the Find/Sync/Dupes panel. You can still have dual file displays in either orientation.
I use a horizontal (one-above-the-other) dual layout for everyday operations, but the vertical (side-by-side) orientation is by far better than horizontal for Sync functions! I'd be sorry to lose it. Do we have to?
Have I misunderstood?
Don't worry, it only affects the Find/Sync/Dupes panel. You can still have dual file displays in either orientation.
Ye-e-s, got that...
Perhaps a picture would help:
This is how the Find/Sync/Dupes panel looks on my system. How is this not wide enough to be useful?
It's not easy being green, eh?!
Nothing is being changed for file displays. You will still be able to have them as vertical or horizontal.
As we keep repeating,
In your screenshot, your Sync panel is in the horizontal layout. This isn't changing. You just won't be able to change the Find/Sync/Dupes panel to a vertical layout any more.
Not sure how to explain it any clearer than that...
You will still have the choice of left/right or top/bottom file displays.
The viewer can still be on the right or at the bottom.
All that's changing is that the Find panel will have to be below the file displays (just like it is in your screenshot). You will no longer be able to put the Find panel to the right of the file displays.
The Find panel is a wide thing and has never been suited to being on the right, unless you have an unusually wide window, so this shouldn't affect many people.
Guess i finally figured out where these guys are coming from.
The written word is a funny old thing, isn't it. It's finally clicked. I had interpreted the term Find/Sync/Dupes panel as referring to everything showing in my screen shot. I now realise it refers to the horizontal panel along the bottom of the file displays. 
Of course, that is why I could not understand my layout being described as horizontal, while I perceived it a vertical.
Thanks to both of you for your patience in trying to bring some light to my dimness.
