Kill "new file" sidebar

[Vladimir Prus]

On Friday 17 February 2006 12:56, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 08:07, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Some time ago we've reached rough agreement that the "new file" sidebar
> > is not very useful, and the same functionality is available from menu.
> >
> > See:
> >    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop/14118
> >
> > and specifically:
> >    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop/14130
> >    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop/14190
> >
> > That did not resulted in any code change, anyway. To put the question
> > straight -- will anyone object if I go ahead, and remove the "new file"
> > sidebar on the KDevelop 3.4 branch? Of course, the "Ctrl-N" functionality
> > won't be touched at all.
>
> We don't have to remove it, why not just disable it in the default profile
> for C++? 

Alas, that will disable Ctrl-N ("New file" menu item) as well, because they 
are part of the same plugin.

> At the moment every single plugin is enabled by default in every 
> profile, except the ruby one where I've disable a couple of the superfluous
> File list options. I agree we certainly need to exercise some more
> editorial control over excess plugins.

Well, we can have a list of "non-default" plugins that will be disabled in all 
new projects. In fact, I think all new plugins should initially end in this 
category.

- Volodya