KDevelop 4.0 UI

[Niko Sams]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM, David Nolden
<david.nolden.kdevelop at art-master.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag 22 Mai 2009 22:32:29 schrieb Aleix Pol:
>> I don't think we want to create new UI paradigms. KDevelop should look like
>> other KDE applications, with maybe little modifications (e.g. having the
>> line along with the tabs or maybe these tabs on the top-right (which look
>> better than on the left). But I still think we should minimize the
>> WTF-effect (yep, just made that up, but happens often). Why does the
>> menu-bar have a border? :S
> Sure. Tabs are a very common UI paradigm, that's why they make sense. When the
> user sees tabs, he knows what they're most probably going to do.
>
> On the other hand, toolbar buttons that switch between completely different
> states and contents of the whole UI are _not_ a common UI paradigm.
>
> Of course we should minize the WTF effect. That's basically what all this is
> about. ;-)

What about vertical tabs?
Vertical space isn't as expensive as horizontal space.

Additonally I made the quickopen lineedit a bit nicer.

Niko
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