First round of patches to make it easier to work with the MainWindow

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:18:18PM -0200, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> of course, i had forgotten to add the patches. wich is good, it helps me a
> bit to bettter reword them.

I applied all the patches you sent :-)

/D