Kap: Unable to move Kap toolbar away from main display monitor

[steveharman]

macOS version:
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.13.4
BuildVersion: 17E199

Kap version:
3.0.0 Beta 1.

Steps to reproduce

Access Kap from the menu bar

Current behaviour

The floating "palette" can't be moved off the main monitor to a secondary or tertiary screen, in a multi-display system.

Expected behaviour

I have three screens and when using Kap would like to move the palette out of the way, from my main display on to one of my of my secondary screens.

Workaround

Unknown.

[skllcrn]

By "palette" I'm presuming you mean the main Kap toolbar @steveharman?

[steveharman]

That's the one, yes @skllcrn Wasn't sure of the terminology.

[karaggeorge]

You should be able to start drawing a cropper on a different display and the bat will follow there. You can’t manually move it but it follows the cropper

[steveharman]

Understood, thanks @karaggeorge - my initial reaction and perhaps that of others would be to drag the toolbar "out of the way" (off my main monitor to a side-screen) and then begin drawing.

Plus I can't think of another tool where I'm prevented from dragging its "windows" from screen to screen.

But as you say, draw on a second screen and the toolbar comes along. It's more the minor usability niggle of being prevented from dragging the toolbar form screen to screen.

Cheers

[karaggeorge]

@steveharman Yeah, understood. The "problem" is that the bar is not really a window. Each screen has it's own window with the overlay, cropper and bar being html components. So dragging the bar doesn't really work from window to window.

But honestly it seems easier to me to just move your cursor two screens down and have it follow you automatically instead of having to click + drag it over.

That said, maybe we need a better way of letting users know that's how it works

[steveharman]

Agreed. @karaggeorge this was more about confusion over use on my part. As I didn't need to click / draw a cropper on a second screen it didn't cross my mind to venture on to another screen for any reason or assume the toolbar would follow.

My case was wanting to draw on my main screen so I thought I'd clear the toolbar out of the way first [to a different screen] and found I couldn't.

Anyway, really pleased to have the floating toolbar back! :-)

[skllcrn]

I think the best solution to this is to be able to drag the main toolbar between screens. However, for people who don't attempt to to drag the toolbar to a custom position it's nice that the toolbar spawns on the screen you triggered Kap on via the menubar if that's different from the default or last used.

[skllcrn]

This isn't feasible right now, putting the issue on hold.