Kill "new file" sidebar

[Jens Dagerbo]

On Friday 17 February 2006 10:03, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 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.

Right. Please nuke the sidebar. The plugin itself still has some utility, but 
the sidebar mainly takes up space.

It's already possible to hide the sidebar, btw - see the global settings. 
Removing the code would be preferable, of course.


// jens