I'd rather get a much beefier GUI layout mechanism in place
bit OT, but I was thinking perhaps something along the lines of what eclipse has, where you can divide the editor into various areas as you like - all resizable etc.
That way people could please themselves.
I had a go at running maxide2 under gtk last night. Apart from some fltk-specific code in there (which I commented out for now), it seemed to work okay, except for resizing the window - the panels stayed where they were - not sure if this is my bug.
All the menu-text changes (for languages) I see, which helped me with a menu-SetText bug I didn't know I had.
Will stick with the BRL gtk IDE until I can suss out the issues.