From: Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck@lyx.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:24:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Use Alt-Escape to float and unfloat dock widgets.
X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=926ae84921dbb99f925546f8f93d1790b945ef8e;p=features.git

Use Alt-Escape to float and unfloat dock widgets.

For some reason, redocking is not working for me at all. This
key seems free.
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diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
index f47805bf89..a31b722066 100644
--- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
   creating a link (and are only available when hyperref is used). There is a 
   checkbox "No Hyperlink" for this purpose.
 
+* Alt-Escape can be used to 'float' and redock widgets like the table of contents
+  or source view.
+
 !!Documents compilation process and images conversion
 
 * LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt/DockView.cpp b/src/frontends/qt/DockView.cpp
index d6ba3c0ba9..ef204e2793 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt/DockView.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt/DockView.cpp
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ void DockView::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent * ev)
 		}
 		mw->activateWindow();
 		mw->setFocus();
+		Qt::KeyboardModifiers mod = ev->modifiers();
+		if (mod & Qt::AltModifier) {
+			(setFloating(!isFloating()));
+			ev->accept();
+			return;
+		}
 		if (isFloating())
 			hide();
 		ev->accept();