<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------<br>From: Yuen Hoe Lim <<a href="mailto:yuenhoe86@gmail.com">yuenhoe86@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: plasma-devel <<a href="mailto:plasma-devel@kde.org">plasma-devel@kde.org</a>><br>Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:49:52 +0800<br>Subject: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff<br>Hi,<br><br>Haven't heard from you (plasmate) guys for awhile, guess you guys are busy :) Anyway, just like some input here. As per the quick discussion the other day, I recently had the editor component tree widget separated out into a new dock widget, so it no longer gets replaced by the katepart that gets loaded when you click a file. I've been toying around with the layout and dockwidget positionings since - and I can't help thinking that, with the addition of this new dockwidget, the whole UI has become awfully cluttered. This is about the best layout I can come up with atm:<br>
<br><a href="http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn91/yuenhoe/plasmateclutter.jpg" target="_blank">http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn91/yuenhoe/plasmateclutter.jpg</a><br><br>I think the main problem now is that there are too many 'vertical' dockwidgets - the timeline, the sidebar, and now the editor tree. Vertical dockwidgets only fit naturally on the left/right dockareas, but having three of them there, plus the mainwidget in the center, really makes the thing so... layered, and crowded. Not to mention virtually unusable on a small screen.<br>
<br>Some possible ways around it:<br><ul><li>Make one (or more) of the 'vertical' dockwidgets 'horizontal' so that we can fit it snugly on the top dockarea instead. I think the editor tree has to stay vertical, so it'd have to be either the sidebar actions menu or the timeline widget, both of which I'm loathe to touch without first consulting with you all :) Those two are now QListWidget derivatives, and it doesn't look like there's an easy way to 'horizontalize' them without rewriting quite abit of code.</li>
</ul></blockquote><div>Yup, I'm currently working on it in order to replace QListWidget with a more flexible QTableModel ( and the same for the Workflow sidebar ); currently I'm busy because I'm writing a presentation for the LinxDay, so be patient =)<br>
As regarding the directory tree dock widget, what about setting a QTableWidget as PlasMate central widget and inserting it as first widget?<br>We could also insert a new tab for each file the user wants to edit, so we can have multiple files editing for free :)<br>
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<li>The old mockups:<br><br><a href="http://skitch.com/michaelrudolph/ba3j9/plasmate-editor2" target="_blank">http://skitch.com/michaelrudolph/ba3j9/<span>plasmate</span>-editor2</a><br>
<a href="http://skitch.com/michaelrudolph/ba3cg/plasmate-editor-timeline" target="_blank">http://skitch.com/michaelrudolph/ba3cg/<span>plasmate</span>-editor-timeline</a> <br><br>suggested an interesting 'overlay' effect for the timeline - and also that the timeline be hidden all the time until a button at the bottom is clicked.</li>
</ul></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I love this concept because describes perfectly how should work: hidden when its not needed, and displayed with a fancy graphics when we need to provide information/perform new actions ;)<br>
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<li>I dunno... ideas?</li></ul>Also, it seems like alot of stuff with PlasMate is currently 'hanging'. The timeline seems to work nicely, but what's gonna happen with the missing publish widget and documentation widget? I've been spending my free time hacking away at the editor and previewer and there are certainly plenty more work needed with those two but I was just wondering about the larger view of the project, since no one seems to be paying much attention to it at the moment :)<br>
<br clear="all">----<br>Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe<br><a href="http://yuenhoe.co.cc/" target="_blank">http://yuenhoe.co.cc/</a><br></blockquote></div>