kwalletmanager ui refactor

[Till Schäfer]

Hi,
first of all i am glad that someone is doing that job as i have subscribed to this mailing list because i had the same
plan some month ago. The project never got very far, but here are a few ideas i had in mind and may improve the
experience of the kwalletmanager. As you mentioned before the "way" to the password is very long because of several
reasons. Some of them are mentioned in your mail, i will add a few more:

1. To open the wallet you need many clicks (as described in your mail). I added a shortcut on my system by using qdbus
to directly open a wallet. Your solution makes this "click way" shorter. However it would be a nice feature to have a
(global) shortcut to directly open a particular wallet in the kwalletmanager UI.

2. While typing a search phrase the tree elements are collapsed and need to be opened by hand. This leads to three more
clicks:
- open the folder
- the category (passwords, pairs, binary data, ...)
- select the entry
I suggest to directly select the first item that matches the search phrase and open all folders which contain matching
entries.

3. The search field does not have the focus when opening a wallet. You need to click in the field to start typing. It
may be a good thing to have the focus directly in the search field, so that you can start typing immediately.

Many greetings
Till Schäfer

Am 03.02.2013 14:50, schrieb Valentin Rusu:
> Hello,
> 
> Lots of us are frequently using kwalletmanager to get/store the secrets for 
> the ever extending sensitive information. We click it's icon to pop the main 
> window, then double click the main wallet icon to pop another window, that 
> will eventually go to the second display (that's my case). Perhaps you put 
> aside a quick thought that this should be changed, but return to the task 
> under hand. And then forget about this until you'll next need to use 
> kwalletmanager. :-)
> 
> During last days I finally sat down and did a ui-refactor and now 
> kwalletmanager handles all the wallets inside a single, KPageWidget based 
> design. A screen capture is far better than a hundred words so here it is:
> http://imgur.com/MD3GDxO
> 
> As you may see, the ancien kwalleteditor window moved inside a 
> KPageWidgetItem. All the legacy code was left untouched. Only slight 
> adjustements were done, to allow ui objects reference changes. I tried to 
> preserve as much code history as possible. This also prevents regressions.
> 
> The sources layout was also slightly changed to be more KF5 compliant. There's 
> now a src subdirectory that has a manager and a konfigurator subdirectory.
> 
> All this refactoring was done in a dedicated branch named "ui-refactor" I just 
> pushed to the main repository. The application is fully functional and you can 
> just checkout that branch, compile and replace your current kwalletmanager ;-)
> 
> Next things to be done are:
> - review these changes - here I need your precious feedback
> - implementing features you may suggest
> - update the handbook
> - merge the code to the main branch when decided
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> PS I'd like to say a big *thank you* to the *gammaray* team who did a really 
> great tool that showed very handy when analysing existing ui layout.
> 
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