I think the viewer pane needs a "lock" checkbox builtin in its little toolbar. When you change layout/toolbars around or resize meta or file displays to get the viewer pane how you want it, my button with the "viewer pane lock" command is always not there. It's a crucial feature for the viewer pane, it should be right in the toolbar. Being a native feature would also make it more popular and more easy to access for regular users. I estimate that only 1% of people know about the lock feature and 0.01% created a hotkey/button to actually lock the pane. o)
Sticking to existing concepts and making the viewer pane toolbar customizable like the path bar or the viewer bar or any other toolbar would make sense as well.. I could add that button myself right there.. o)
Might make sense as an option, off by default. We found with the similar lock in the Folder Tree titlebar that people constantly click it without knowing what it does, and then wonder why the tree is "broken" afterwards.
Making the little viewer pane buttons configurable would definitely be nice, as there are so many of them already. Same with the context menu, where both are editable in the standalone viewer but not the viewer pane (yet).
I strongly support that idea.
The developers seem to be in favor of it…
It could already have been part of an update to version 12…
It could have been part of the new features of version 13…
And yet, nothing came of it…
So, before it gets forgotten in the mists of time, now would be the right time to finally implement it.
A simple, additional lock would already be a huge step forward; naturally, a customizable toolbar would be even better. Believe it or not, I would pay for that feature.
I'm fairly certain that the users asking for that particular feature are fully aware of that.
As I said back in 2018, when the functionality itself was introduced:
Believe it or not, this is such an important feature for me that it was the MAIN reason for upgrading to version 12.
There's no way I ever could have missed it, and I'm very grateful for it. But people (not just me) keep asking for an integrated button. To quote another user (hpearce):
Am I to understand that there will be a command to lock the viewer pane but no actual button on the pane to do the same?
After you suggested the same Set VIEWPANELOCK=Toggle button/hotkey, you got the following answer:
But this would be a button on a regular toolbar, but not within the viewer pane interface itself. To be honest, that seems kind of out-of-place and clutsy.
Why should educated and well-informed power-users suffer at the expense of thought- and careless customers? By that reasoning, the very concept of DOpus could be put into question.
