project views in 3.4

[Jens Herden]

On Saturday 27 May 2006 21:02, Jens Dagerbo wrote:
> On Friday 26 May 2006 01:17, Jens Herden wrote:
> > On Friday 26 May 2006 06:46, Jens Dagerbo wrote:
> > > The version we have in KDevelop 3.4 branch today doesn't seem to work
> > > properly (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123849), and seeing it in
> > > action I don't think it fits KDevelop very well as it is. It clutters
> > > the UI, grabs focus and overloads the "project" concept.
> >
> > I was not aware about the bug yet. Grabbing the focus is also not nice,
> > so I can try to fix these two bugs.
> >
> > I am also not happy with the name "project view" and I had the idea to
> > change it to session. Similar to what Kate uses. We could move the menu
> > entry out of the project menu to either View or Window?
>
> Well.. if it now works and the toolbar focus grab can be fixed I don't
> really mind it much either. :)
>
> I agree with renaming "project" to "session", or maybe "view session". It
> mirrors kate and reduces confusion with projects. I guess moving it to the
> View menu makes the most sense. (Personally I would like to see the Window
> menu gone completely in KDev4, but that's another discussion).

OK, I will move it to the view menu.


> Also, since FileList now does bulk load/unload of files, it should take
> care to store and restore the proper encoding for the files it loads. This
> is probably easy to add, I can take a look at it once I get kdevelop to
> build again...

Oh yes this was not done. But I think I can also add this. Should not be very 
hard to do.


> The "display toolbar in toolview" option is nice, but to my surprise it
> instead moves it to the main toolbar. Is bulk load/unload of files really a
> feature that is used often enough to mandate space in the main toolbar? Can
> we at least have a third option - "off"? For me, the menu entry is enough.

Well, for me it created a separate toolbar that can get disabled. So I would 
see no need to add an option if this works. I will check if this behavior is 
still like it used to be.


> Would it make sense to make it only do a bulk load, and not a switch, btw?
> Last time I tried the project views feature it closed all the files I had
> open when it loaded the new set. For me this was unexpected and unwanted,
> but perhaps this behaviour is the idea behind the feature?

Yes, this was the idea behind the feature but maybe an option to not close the 
open files would be fine.

Jens
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