in module source reorganization

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 17 February 2006 15:29, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 19:05, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Adam (manyoso), Jens (teatime), and I (mattr) had a discussion in the
> > #kdevelop IRC channel last night about some reorganizations we'd like to
> > make to the kdevelop source tree in order to make things a bit more
> > logical in terms of directory layout and here's at least the first round
> > of changes we'd like to make:
> >
> > - rename parts to plugins
> >
> > - move the toplevel desktop files to their own directory called xdg
> >
> > - move any installed libraries (and their code) that are outside of the
> > main lib directory to the main lib directory ( i.e. from
> > kdevelop/languages/lib to kdevelop/lib/languages,
> > kdevelop/src/profileengine/lib moves to
> > kdevelop/lib/profileengine, etc.)
> >
> > - languages and buildtools would move to the new plugins directory, since
> > that's really what they are.
> >
> > Questions and comments are welcome. We'll try to answer things to the
> > best of our ability
>
> I think this sounds useful, but I'm not sure if it should be the number one
> priority for KDevelop 3.4. The only problem with 'moving things around' is
> it will probably make it harder for anyone to be doing anything else at the
> same time. On the other hand there isn't that much activity anyway.
>

ahh, i forgot to mention that this is for KDevelop 4. Sorry. I wouldn't want 
to do something like this for KDevelop 3.4.

> I think the priority should make tidying up excess features, cleaning up
> the ui and getting Alexander's simplified ideal mode working well enough
> that we could junk kmdi. Split windows don't seem to work with it for me,
> but they would be a major improvement it they worked. Then there's the
> double edit configure menu problem - I don't how much work that is to fix.
> It removes some of the daft kmdi menu options in the View menu. And we
> could get rid of the equally daft menu option 'type filename to open file'
> for very little work I assume.
>

agreed

> I spent this afternoon removing a few toolbuttons, and finding about the
> simplified ideal mode on irc. It seems to me that KDevelop is so
> frustrating close to having a much better UI and usability for very little
> work, just by rationalising the default setups a bit.
>

yes, true. i plan to spend some time on KDevelop 3.4 eventually, i just don't 
know when. Having a release plan would help motivate me.

--
Matt