DT 3.9.4 here. I’ve never understood when the Activity pane is activated in the sidebar and when it appears (or doesn’t appear) as a standalone window. (When, for example a large scanned document is being OCR’ed to searchable PDF.) Where such “activity” is displayed seems to vary from day to day and task to task; if there’s a rhyme or reason to this it evades me. While the pane is a good idea vis-à-vis reducing on-screen clutter, I think, what I would really like is a preference setting that gives me the option of showing the progress of an activity in either the pane or the standalone window and, moreover, of keeping the window open until I choose to close it so that, should I switch out of DT3 to another app, the activity window doesn’t disappear. That would be very helpful for situations when I want to informally monitor something going on in the background, as it were, in DT3 while another application’s windows are in the foreground…
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