H5s is designed using cooperating composite windows. You dictate placement, and how much of the screen(s) to use. H5s doesn't go beyond that. It does not carve out a chunk of the desktop where only one can play. As display technology has advanced—multiple monitor setups with increased screen resolutions and higher pixel densities–opening up a gaping hole on the desktop becomes less and less appropriate for an application like H5s.
There are three types of windows in H5s: the pilot window, the console, and the contour.
Pilot
The pilot window is the tile that visually anchors H5s on the desktop, and this is the window that appears in your desktop taskbar. It has some special properties for collectively moving the H5s composition, and you can reduce the app to just this tile if desired. The pilot is annexed to the console, that is, it does not move independently.
Console
The console window provides HDF5 access, composition management functions, and general H5s bookkeeping, e.g. user preferences, versioning, and updates, It displays both the HDF5 filesystem path, and the HDF5 data object path. It does not contain HDF5 graph display operators or controls.
Contour
The contour displays the HDF5 graph and metadata. You can open as many HDF5 datastores as you like and place the contour windows whereever you want.
