"Evaluate" and "Watch" buttons (Was: Debugging with KDevelop)

[Vladimir Prus]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 19:56, Francesco Montorsi wrote:

> Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> > May I join in with debugger wishes?
> >
> > 1) Appearance: Hide the "watched variables" entry if no variables are
> > watched. I have the variable view on the bottom edge of the KDevelop
> > window, and it takes ridiculous much space (two parent items, "Expression
> > to watch" needing two lines while being wide as can be - obviously this
> > was only designed as left-edge view) so there is maybe space for 3
> > variables where 5 or 6 should fit in. Also, could you please auto-expand
> > the local variables item or maybe remember its "expanded" state?
>
> I completely agree. I moved the variables window to the bottom edge, too
> and I have your same problem (I'm using 3.2 too).
>
> In general, I think that screen space must be used wisely: you want to give
> to the user the possibility to add as many variables as possible to its
> debugger windows and thus all the useless GUI elements should be removed.

Honestly, I never knew one could move variables window to the bottom ;-)
One possible cleanup would be to:

  - Move the "Evaluate" and "Watch" buttons to the right of the entry field
  - Shorten "Evaluate" to "Eval"

It would be even better if somebody can some up with good icons for "Evaluate" 
and "Watch", so that we can drop text labels.

- Volodya