[IDEA] KDevelop welcome dialog

[Jens Dagerbo]

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Hehe.. amazing, I was toying with this very thing this morning. I made some 
designer layouts, but nothing as colorful. :)

I think it would be best implemented as a simple plugin, which we temporarily 
embed into the main area (I tried it earlier today and it seems to work fine) 
and unload when the first project is loaded. It should be easy to do in such 
a way that it doesn't load when KDevelop is started from a .kdevelop file or 
when KDevelop is set to automatically load the previous project.

I think it is more a question of what should go into such a welcome screen (my 
plugin's name: greeter)

Off the top of my head: 

(very) short introduction to KDevelop
Recent Projects list
New Project 
Open Project (maybe, for completeness)
Some easy links to beginner information

Just a simple, clean and friendly greeting. :)

I guess the most resonable way to access these other parts of KDevelop would 
be through DCOP however, and adding that might be less than trivial.. (no 
idea, never done it)

PS. Not that I suggest that we should ape it, but here is a screenshot of the 
opening screen of Visual Studio .NET: 

http://web.sau.edu/LillisKevinM/C++Tutorial/dotNet/020.jpg


jd


On Thursday 16 October 2003 14.47, Dominik Haumann wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I've got an idea for a better "welcome" for the user if you open kdevelop:
> When no file and no project is opened we could display a widget (sth. like
> the attached screenshot) that gives the user the option to:
> - read "Did you know..." (we can get rid of the extra dialog)
> - open a "New Project..."
> - open a "Recent Project"
> - open a tutorial sth. like "First steps..." (explaining the managers on
> the left, etc...)
> - open KDevelop Documentation
> - Quit
>
> Imo this is very important because the boring grey background when you open
> kdevelop is _very_ boring and doesn't look inviting at all!
>
> What do you think?
> Is it possible to implement it as a new part?
>
> --
> regards,
> Dominik
> dhaumann
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