Bug testing

[APEbbers]

If you like to test the developer branch and have find a bug, you can post it here

[raindropsfromsky]

The Windows controls (maximize, normal) do not work on the Ribbon or the floating panels (Tree, Property View, etc).
The rest of FreeCAD changes.

Not sure if this is Ribbon issue or FC issue!

P.S. The panels are left floating because I am having a miserable time in controlling them. Just a few minutes back, they vanished and got replaced by a tab attached to the left edge of FC. They do not follow any predictable behavior rules!

[APEbbers]

It looks like the ribbon is still floating. Can you check if the overlay is toggled, it still happens?

[APEbbers]

The floating panels, are caused by FC's overlay function. There is not much I can do about that. I advise, to set the panels as you want, and then switchoff Overlay.

[raindropsfromsky]

The problem is, the overlay button does not have distinct icons for "on" and "off" states. So I cannot tell when it is active.
I clicked on the overlay button of Ribbon, only to land in yet another weird problem: It got converted into a tab, which appears only when I hover the mouse on the corner.

(If I click on the tab, the Ribbon reappears.)

But while groping around, I discovered that some other panel also had got converted into tab. That tab also appears near the Ribbon's tab.

However, when I clicked on the "Ribbon" tab, the Ribbon reappeared, but the other tab became inaccessible! So how am I supposed to recover the other panel?

IINW this is a bug in FreeCAD.

[raindropsfromsky]

I found this discussion in FC GitHub: FreeCAD/FreeCAD#23662
DeepSeek tells me that the interface is an overlap of two independent systems. Hence the confusion.

[APEbbers]

Yes, but this exactly what the overlay function suppose to do.. There is also a button to keep the ribbon (or other panel) visible during overlay.

The overlay button of the ribbon is a toggle button, just like the button of other panels. I'm not a huge fan of this feature. I only set the tree transparant. After that, I switch off overlay entirely.

[APEbbers]

I've added a button to toggle the ribbon floating or docked. This way, you can drag the ribbon back to the correct position.
I'm not sure about the location of the button and the icon needs to be changed but you can try with the latest commit of the Develop branch

[raindropsfromsky]

Addon Manager listed four updates today. Ribbon was one of them.
After updated, FC restarted, but the Ribbon was completely removed.
Only the menu toolbar appeared.
There were no WB button toolbars at all.

So I changed over to Main branch, and again to Develop branch.
Then restarted FC.
The problem still remains.

[raindropsfromsky]

Update: After successfully installing the Main branch, I again launched Addon Manager and switched to Develop branch.
It installed the Develop branch, and restarted FC.
After a restart, the Ribbon has vanished again.

[APEbbers]

Can you download the zipfile manually, to see if that works? It can take some time before the addon manager has the latest update

[raindropsfromsky]

I downloaded the zip from here.

The Addon folder is not there in the FreeCAD's installation folder.

Which folder do I replace?
C:\Users\naray\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\v1-2\Mod\FreeCAD-Ribbon
C:\Users\naray\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\v1-2\RibbonUI_Data\

[APEbbers]

the first one.
Keep the second one. Otherwise you lose your settings.

Best to replace the contents

[raindropsfromsky]

It works now

[ghbry]

Hi Ebbers. Your Ribbon 1.10.10.2 runs fine on my FC 1.2 Dev AppImage from april 1st. However on the ones from 22nd and 29th of april, the units are a mess (see img). My preferences is set to mm. As it's dev's it's not unexpected but this is FYI to see if it gets changed later in FC.

[APEbbers]

Hi @ghbry,

Thanks for the headsup. I've created an issue for it in the freecad repo: FreeCAD/FreeCAD#29713

Kind regards