Better arrangement of tabs in blacs.

[philipstarkey]

Original report (archived issue) by Ian B. Spielman (Bitbucket: Ian Spielman, GitHub: ispielma).

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We don't know how to describe this, but we have so many blacs tabs that they are a mess to manage. A better organizational principle is desired.

[philipstarkey]

Original comment by Philip Starkey (Bitbucket: pstarkey, GitHub: philipstarkey).

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Ideas I've had to improve this:

• Ability to pop-out BLACS tabs into their own windows (so that BLACS can span multiple monitors)
• Shrink the padding around controls (when I first designed the Qt widgets, I didn't know as much as I do now about layout margins and spacings)
• Ability to graphically (via settings panel) alter the distribution of notebooks (e.g. something other than the 2x2 grid we have now)
• Ability to launch the tab in a secondary instance of BLACS that is runs on another PC
• Virtual devices - A mashup of controls from various tabs. For example you could have a "MOT" device tab with all the IO controls relevant to that, etc. The framework for this actually already exists within BLACS, it's just never been documented or actually used to make a virtual device tab.