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For what its worth I agree the patch is needed, as it stands the csv
importer is unusable in windows and problematic in other distro's<br>
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Chris<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/04/2014 11:08 PM, Allan Anderson
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<p style="margin-top: 0;">On April 18th, 2014, 11:34 a.m. UTC,
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Hi Cristian
Many thanks. It had been starting to dawn on me that, when dealing with different distros, it shouldn't be necessary to fiddle about with margins
to get things to look right. I'd suspected that I needed to make some fundamental changes, but wasn't really ready to take the plunge. Anyway,
you've done it for me, so again, thank you.
The question now is, where do we go from here?
Here, I'd already removed a chunk of code and have been working on details of the UI appearance. For instance, I don't like to see the size of the
table changing height between the different wizard pages, and I don't like to see just partial lines displayed. Obviously, if the user decides to do
a resize, then the decision is his, but without that happening, I don't want to see half lines displayed. This is mainly to do with whether a
horizontal scroll-bar is visible or not. I have not been able to get that to work correctly. Sometimes, it is visible but isVisible() returns
false, and vice versa I think. So I've had to calculate the diplayed width and adjust the containing rectangle. A little work is still needed here.
In your pruning, I think you have removed some vertical spacers, which is causing the combo-boxes to shift upwards, leaving a lot of space below.
I wish to revert that. In the separators wizard page, the two combo-boxes are now different sizes, I think because you've removed the form layout I was
using. In the banking wizard, the combo-box sizes are significantly different in width between Linux Mint and Ubuntu. I don't know about on Windows.
These are very minor points, but I'd like to tweak them.
I'd decided on a default window height of 10 rows, which has been changed. Was there a particular reason for that?
Between Mint and Ubuntu, the margin values are still different, but now that has no effect on the appearance. The font sizes are differ too, 9 point
against 11 point. That does affect the appearance. Should I leave that as is, do you think? I think probably yes.
I can't add a revised patch to your review, but if you agree, I can describe any proposed changes. I don't want to stray away from your major changes,
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<p>On April 18th, 2014, 12:19 p.m. UTC, <b>Cristian Oneț</b>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">"where do we go from here?"
I don't know, it's up to you to decide. If you ask me (after 2 days of going trough csvdialog.cpp) I would suggest to rewrite everything. I know that seems harsh but frankly I didn't see such "tangled up" code in a while. One reading it couldn't quite tell what is essential (necessary) in there and what is trial/error leftover code.
For the UI I would have the following guide:
- keep it simple (your layouts were really, really complicated)
- don't center everything (including messages)
- don't set fix sizes (fixed size policies are OK in the appropriate place - line edits, combos should have a fixed vertical size hint)
- try to use the available space as uniformly as possible (1 page with 2 combos vs. 1 page with 10 combos)
- now we have a dialog (QWizard) inside another dialog (CSVDialog - former widget) which seems a bad idea to me
For the code:
- don't keep everything together (like a big ball of spaghetti), try to break it up into smaller components
- only keep the essential code otherwise you won't be able to spot it later from the clutter
Until the csv importer plugin will not be cleaned up, clean reviewable patches can't be provided because the patches will always look like the code that is patched.</pre>
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<p>On April 18th, 2014, 12:21 p.m. UTC, <b>Cristian Oneț</b>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Forgot to mention the fonts: don't set any fonts - let the user choose the fonts he desires using the system settings.</pre>
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<p>On April 18th, 2014, 12:41 p.m. UTC, <b>Allan Anderson</b>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I've never made any claim to be a programmer! This all started off as a script to produce a QIF file, which I was advised to expand, first into
tabs, and later into a wizard. It has grown, like Topsy. I've learned a lot along the way, but I'm still not a programmer.
In the light of your comments, there seems little point now wasting time tuning what we have, so I'll leave it as is.
When/if a rewrite occurs will depend upon my available time.</pre>
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<p>On April 18th, 2014, 1:24 p.m. UTC, <b>Cristian Oneț</b>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Sorry if I offended you, I know to well how one feels about his work made voluntarily in his free time. I'm just asking that you never stop learning and improving the work you do. I even have the same critical view of my own code that I wrote back when I started contributing to kmymoney. I did ask for a rewrite but didn't say when so whenever you feel like it seems fine. Meanwhile we can leave this patch in "suspension" if it's too much.</pre>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">No, your criticism was valid, if a little brusque.
The patch is needed, so must go forward.
> - try to use the available space as uniformly as possible (1 page with 2 combos vs. 1 page with 10 combos)
I split up the wizard pages by logical function, and obviously some are much simpler than others. The investment
page needed a lot of fields, others just a couple. Are you saying to combine some of the smaller pages, even though
they may have no logical connection?
> - now we have a dialog (QWizard) inside another dialog (CSVDialog - former widget) which seems a bad idea to me.
Can you expand on this? I'm unclear.
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<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated April 17, 2014, 9:23
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Remove fixed layout values from the CSV importer UI.
Also removed a lot of code (a lot still remains) that I think should
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top:
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">For me the importer looks/feel almost like without this.</pre>
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<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/bankingwizardpage.ui <span
style="color: grey">(d2179bff0504a67a22efbb364f90e089443d8239)</span></li>
<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/completionwizardpage.ui
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<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvdialog.h <span
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<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvdialog.cpp <span
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<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvdialog.ui <span
style="color: grey">(36e7fd51159a1f7391394b5f00bc22387b0bd8f5)</span></li>
<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvimporterplugin.h <span
style="color: grey">(d2d2f6ca9aeea0709512afcffbad17abea6a315a)</span></li>
<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvimporterplugin.cpp <span
style="color: grey">(602b4d924c8afc0b34819e47b03b88776319bf0c)</span></li>
<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/introwizardpage.ui <span
style="color: grey">(9bd29f5f4339add8790e032f5613ec46c675634d)</span></li>
<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/investmentwizardpage.ui
<span style="color: grey">(3744963e5e9a91ad36b8d0fa78839b296c5810f8)</span></li>
<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/investprocessing.cpp <span
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<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/lines-datewizardpage.ui
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<li>kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/separatorwizardpage.ui
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