Resize 3D view to enable non-overlapping floaters
Philip Linden
Make it possible to drag the size of the 3D view window to be smaller than the whole viewer window, allowing the various floater windows to be placed next to the 3D view without overlapping it. This would, for example, let you maximize the viewer on a large monitor, resize the 3D view, and then drag your floaters outside the main window. See attached image for how it could look.
Implementation: Add a small drag control to the lower right corner of the 3D window allowing that window to be resized to be smaller than the main viewer window frame.
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Yorkie Bardeen
Even on the 1920x1080 monitor I have, this would be useful. Being able to put a full height chat window to one side without uncentering the 3d view, or clearing space at the bottom of the screen for some windows and using less vertical 3d view for driving/racing. I have no idea why people are on here taking time to say why they don't want other people to have this option available.
Paul Hexem
Considering I have four monitors and could easily stretch the main window across three of them, I'm all in for this idea.
Christi Maeterlinck
I differ from Henri Beauchamp, preferring to assign some screen space to other windows (e.g. Excel when I'm doing my SL island accounts). But even when devoting the whole screen to SL, Philip Linden's suggestion would be entirely feasible for Mac owners who use the Sidecar feature to hand off some of the windows they have open to their iPad.
SarahKB7 Koskinen
This idea is only useful if you have a massive widescreen display or multiple displays and a GPU beefy enough to handle them. I can't upvote this unfortunately.
Henri Beauchamp
I would never use such a feature... I want the 3D view to occupy the maximum space, on the contrary.
On the other hand, LL could take example on TPVs (Cool VL Viewer, Black Dragon) about the floaters size, layout and density, and avoid to waste the room in the floaters. With small floaters, there is no issue with overlapping.
Zada Bury
The idea sounds nice, special if you have an ultra-wide screen, for example.
For the "driving" videos I "struggle" a bit to get the main view free of other ... floaters.
Special using different viewers for that kind of task (Megapahit is on Mac still much faster than Firestorm while driving) makes it more easy ... and it show in the right-bottom somewhat, I wasn't clicking or dragging yet.