Missing features

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Thu Jul 3 14:44:15 BST 2014


On Thursday 03 July 2014 17:13:24 Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 July 2014 15:15:50 Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
> >> Am I right that comparing to v3 there is no filter in filesystem
> >> toolview? No word wrap in compiler output?
> > 
> > Filtering in the filesystem toolview is done by means of the project
> > filter, i.e. configure your project and filter stuff from there. And no,
> > we won't bring back a search-like filter to the treeview - use QuickOpen
> > instead to find stuff.
> 
> I mean Filesystem toolview (not Projects toolview).

Ah, my bad.

> I'm saying about most quick and easy way of finding files from Filesystem 
toolview since it is already there and is used on regular basis. If you
> suggesting to use different measures, which are of course there, but
> meanwhile not so convenient -- they are unusable!

I never use the file system toolview, so probably you have a highly different 
workflow from most of us. 

> > Regarding word wrap, I guess you refer to
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336606 . Anyhow, a proper konsole
> > integration would be the best to have eventually and would solve a lot of
> > wish requests of our users. Someone will have to write the code though,
> > and noone did that so far.
> 
> No, I don't refer to bug in trunk. I refer to missing feature of line
> wrapping. I guess, konsole may be not the good choice for compiler
> output, because (presumably):
> 
> 1. only 5% of functionality from konsole will be used;
> 2. 95% of functionality of compiler output window is not related to konsole.

That is not correct. Where do you usually see compile output? Right, in a 
konsole. And if you want line wrapping, performance, ansi color-escapes, ... 
you want a konsole.

> And I yes, I want all the functionality that is now missing in v4:
> shorter compiler output (along with colorful fancy droplets), filter
> for Filesystem toolview and many more!

Then start contributing, I'll happily review your patches.

Bye

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de



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